The World Cup and Marginalized Dreamers
It’s Movie Day at The Marginalized!
Below I’ve attached an episode of Current TV’s Vanguard series. In this documentary, Mariana van Zeller explores a growing trend in Ghana: the exploitation and trafficking of many young African men who dream of finding fame by playing football in Europe.
The episode is 45 minutes, so I know not everyone will have time to watch the whole thing. But for those of you interested in soccer or human trafficking, this is a very helpful resource, and provides a lot more context to what is going on with the sport in Africa beyond the hype that we’re seeing around the 2010 World Cup.
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