How Didier Drogba Helped End a Civil War

On 8 October 2005, Didier Drogba walked into a dressing room in Sudan. Here he delivered a speech that would become one of the most famous moments in African football history. Just minutes earlier, Ivory Coast had qualified for their first-ever World Cup. The players were celebrating. Across the country, people poured into the streets. It should have been a night of pure celebration. Instead, it unfolded against the backdrop of a civil war. Since 2002, Ivory Coast had been divided in two. The government controlled the south. Rebels controlled the north. Thousands had been killed, and repeated attempts to broker peace had achieved little. Yet despite everything that separated Ivorians, there was still one thing that united them. Football. This is the story of what happened when Ivory Coast's greatest footballer asked his country to stop fighting….. ********************************************************************** Sources    • Didier Drogba - Speech to stop Civil War   https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/52... https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/ne... https://www.goal.com/en-za/lists/we-b... https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/11/fo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_I... https://blackpast.org/global-african-...