TANZANIA, May 25 -- TODAY is not just your average Sunday, where you scroll your WhatsApp groups, delete useless forwards, then settle for a sad plate of ‘mchemsho while mumbling how the weekend flew.

No. This Sunday is continental. It is spiritual. It is political. It is everything, rolled into ninety minutes of sweaty palms, screeching fans, misplaced passes and a national blood pressure alert.

Simba Sports Club, the red brigades of Kariakoo, will be battling RS Berkane of Morocco in the second leg of the TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup Final.

And this is no ordinary game. This, dear fellow Tanzanians, is not Simbas game. It is our game.

Whether you are Yanga, Azam, JKT Ruvu Stars, Mtibwa Sugar, or even one of those confus...