RWC 2011 – Page 2 – Boadicea's Chariot

World in Union

The opening ceremony has started, the first game just over an hour away, there’s a version of this playing right now from Eden Park but this one always does it for me.

Sub Saharan Africans

It would appear that ‘sub Saharan African’ is the new black!

I’ve heard the phrase on CNN and Aljezeera, not sure about SKY (I don’t watch BBC World) but it appears that the word black is out and ‘sub Saharan African’ is in.

Now, sub Saharan African includes my family and I suppose my good friend and fellow Charioteer (our colleague presently resident in Cape Town)

If you listen to the news clip from CNN (where I nicked the pic) they start off with ‘sub Saharan Africans’ what they of course mean is black migrant workers from Chad, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria and who knows where else.

I can see the headlines now Continue reading “Sub Saharan Africans”