Kenya: Footballers take on the G8
12.05.2005
On paper it was a mismatch equivalent to Barcelona versus Grimsby Town. Gor-Mahia FC, who lie second in Kenya's premier league and are the only Kenyan side ever to win the African Continental Cup, took on St Johns Sports, a team of young men from Korogocho, a Nairobi slum area. "This game was about depicting the power imbalance in the world, skewed against developing countries", said Peter Aoga from ECONEWS Africa, an NGO working on trade issues. "When we are involved in trade negotiations, we are inexperienced - we don't have the expertise. As much as the developed world says the grounds for negotiations are fair, they are not."