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How supporting women's soccer in Cameroon promotes peace for entire communities
A common sight during the late afternoons or weekends in villages and cities across Cameroon is that of boys playing soccer. In 1863, the same year as the sport was established by the Football Association of England, soccer was imported to the African continent by British colonists, making it a global, rather than distinctly European, game. Yet it was the British who determined the rules of the game in Europe and Africa. Only men were allowed to play, and the sex-segregated n