SV: {UAH} Top Five African football commentators - SORRY, NO UGANDAN

Thank you, thank you, Ronaldo, thank you very big!!!

Those were our boys!!

Mike Ssebalu and Charles Korokoto were exceptional. The kinds that make even non-football bores broke loose.

Tucker was more on the news part.

I saw all the three live in real human colours!!!

 

"WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.

Den torsdag, 16 januari 2014 14:54 skrev Ronald Okuonzi <okuonzir@gmail.com>:

The only good Commentator in Uganda , I can remember and still
stronger enough could be today  for Football sports  for Africa was
MIKE SSEBALU  - a Vivid one he was really AND WOULD HAVE BEEN TILL
TODATE and not to forget of Charles Charly Korokoto Agondua  and the
Radio Presentator Programms by  Mr Ndugu  !  in those early days of
Uganda Independent . I must also recall of Tucker Lwanga , and others
of as Good and perfect News Readers on the UTV and Radio . My
compliments to them till todate !

They were nice Guys really and admirable in Uganda .

2014/1/16, gaumoy nockrach-laduma <rawnuntamed@yahoo.com>:
> VERY LOGICAL, INDEED.Why would we have good commentators
> when we don't even know what football is? Or have they started playing
> football in Uganda too?! Soon there shall be no athletes neither when the
>  culture of "feeling ashame of the body" deters
> our sprinters from running in Gomesi (spl?!), Kikoyi and whatever instead of
> sports "mini dresses"!!
>
> "WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.
>
>
>
> Den torsdag, 16 januari 2014 5:13 skrev Ssalongo Ssennoga
> <firstcall.ug@gmail.com>:
>
>
>>Wait a second, where is Andrew Patrick Luwandaga and Mzungu Kanga?
>>
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>>Villager
>>On Thursday, January 16, 2014, Gwokto La'Kitgum <lakitgum@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Top Five African football commentators
>>>
>>>
>>>Jan 15, 2014 4:12:00 PM
>>>Goal profiles five of the most recognisable voices in the history of
>>> African football commentary
>>>FEATURE
>>>By Sammie Frimpong
>>>
>>>Football commentators do provide vital services and certainly hold a
>>> special place in the African game.
>>>On a continent where many have limited or no access at all to electricity,
>>> while football games also get occasionally dreary, commentators work hard
>>> to transmit every detail of soccer action via television
>>> sets/battery-operated radio devices and put some spice into otherwise
>>> unexciting matches.
>>>Goal profiles some of these golden voices, past and present.
>>>
>>>JOE LARTEY - Ghana
>>>Over a considerably extensive period, Joe Lartey, along with regular
>>> commentary partner Harry Thompson, ruled the airwaves when covering
>>> national events for state broadcaster GBC (Ghana Broadcasting
>>> Corporation). And while Lartey excelled at commentating on most political
>>> and social functions, football was arguably his forte. In the days before
>>> private media houses sprang throughout Ghana, Lartey and his colleagues
>>> enjoyed a monopoly they dignified with some fine work. The phrase 'Over
>>> to you, Joe Lartey', coined by Thompson and mentioned on air whenever
>>> Lartey was scheduled to take over microphone duties from his partner in
>>> the course of a game, has since entered daily Ghanaian lingua. Erudite
>>> and eloquent Lartey became the first president of the Sports Writers
>>> Association of Ghana (SWAG), an institution of which he is currently a
>>> patron. Even in his pension, Lartey continues to inspire an entire
>>> generation of commentators raised listening and looking
>  up to him, possibly including the next on this list.
>>>KWABENA YEBOAH – Ghana
>>>As animated and passionate commentators come, Kwabena Yeboah is among
>>> Africa's finest. During commentary, Yeboah, bearer of one of the oldest
>>> surviving identities in Ghanaian media, cheers every goal with a
>>> trademark shout of 'Oluwaaa', occasionally followed by the equally
>>> intriguing 'Wunderbar' (German for 'wonderful'). A respected opinion on
>>> Ghanaian sport, Yeboah is also a prolific writer - notably as founding
>>> editor of the Africa Sports newspaper - and the long-standing host of the
>>> Monday night Sports Highlights show on Ghana Television. Like good wine,
>>> Yeboah continues to defy age even as fresher and younger competition
>>> continue to emerge.
>>>ERNEST OKONKWO - Nigeria
>>>Around the time Joe Lartey ruled supreme in Ghana, Nigerian Ernest Okonkwo
>>> was also calling the shots in his own homeland. Okonkwo, deceased, is
>>> generally regarded as the doyen of Nigerian football commentary. For
>>> someone whose specialty lay in generously doling out interesting
>>> nicknames to the football players of his time, though, being tagged
>>> 'doyen' is hardly undeserved. 'Mathematical', 'Block Buster', 'Chairman',
>>> 'Man Mountain' and 'Chief Justice' are just a few of the flattering
>>> monikers Okonkwo gave to the Nigerian national stars of that era, namely,
>>> Segun Odegbami, Aloysius Atuegbu, Christian Chukwu, Emmanuel Okala, and
>>> Adokie Amasimeka respectively. To his credit, Okonkwo was never one to
>>> consider his job a perfunctory duty. On occasion he would voice his blunt
>>> opinions on poor performances and on-pitch behaviour he deemed
>>> unprofessional. Only last year, the decision was made by Babatunde
>>> Fashola, governor of Nigeria's Lagos State, to name the
>  Press Gallery of the Teslim Balogun Stadium after Okonkwo [and Ishola
> Folorusho, another ace Nigerian commentator]. A fitting tribute, indeed.
>>>DENNIS LIWEWE – Zambia
>>>What Okonkwo and Lartey were to Nigeria and Ghana respectively, Liwewe was
>>> to his native Zambia. In the glory days of the 'KK 11' (as Zambia's
>>> national team was then famously referred to), Liwewe's career bloomed as
>>> strongly as his voice boomed. In the build-up to a goal, Liwewe would
>>> rattle words hurriedly in his own inimitable style and cap it with a
>>> thundering hurrah or a terribly morose climax, depending on whether
>>> Zambia went in front or behind as a consequence. Possessing an extensive
>>> range of emotions while running commentary, objectivity, to Liwewe - as
>>> to several other African commentators of that period - was less of a
>>> priority relative to the fact that he actually considered it part of his
>>> patriotic responsibility to support his country's team versus opponents
>>> from elsewhere. Liwewe, now aged over 70 and long retired, remains
>>> outspoken on the Zambian national team's fortunes, and was admitted to
>>> hospital in late 2013 for poor health but is
>  said to be recuperating well at present.
>>>ZAMA MASONDO – South Africa
>>>In terms of indigenous African commentary, South Africa's Zama Masondo
>>> easily tops the bunch; an icon who has contributed significantly to the
>>> popularity of the sport in his country. Masondo, a trained schoolteacher,
>>> stood out in the gantry as much for his deeply rich yet slightly nasal
>>> voice as for his sheer ingenuity. When he felt he had had enough of the
>>> rather monotonous chants of 'Goal!' by his peers, Masondo invented an
>>> innovative synonym, 'Laduma', a term that has stuck since and is now an
>>> established part of South African football parlance. Like Okonkwo,
>>> Masondo could also think up exciting custom-made nicknames for the
>>> players who impressed him most, among them 'Baboon Shepherd', 'Who's
>>> Fooling Who', 'Legs of Thunder', and 'Jazzy Queen'. A man of many parts,
>>> Masondo currently runs a catering school in Johannesburg where he trains
>>> personnel for the country's large tourist industry and also recently
>>> starred in a popular soap opera broadcasted on
>  SABC, South Africa's state channel. Masondo sums up the role his colleague
> commentators and himself play thus: "We are there to paint pictures with
> words, to inform and to educate, but we are also praise-singers, and we come
> from a culture with a long tradition of that."
>>>Apt.
>>>
>>>
>>>Follow Sammie Frimpong on
>>>
>>>___________________________________Gwokto La'Kitgum
>>>"Even a small dog can piss on a tall Building", Jim Hightower
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