Dar es Salaam, Feb. 23 -- TANZANIA: IT is a glorious Monday morning, the kind where the sun gently kisses your window, birds chirp their approval of your day off and youve just devoured a breakfast so heavy it could single-handedly sink a fishing dhow.

You sink into your favourite chair, turn on the radio, expecting oh, naïve you some insightful news, a stimulating discussion on national affairs, or dare we dream, a hard hitting investigative piece that sends shivers up the spines of the high and mighty.

But no! Instead, your eardrums are assaulted by the unmistakable sounds of a heated football debate one so intense youd think these guys were negotiating an M23 ceasefire rather than dissecting Yangas goalkeepers mysterious inabili...