Zambia’s penalty shoot-out triumph in the Final of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations was an emotional end to the 28th edition of the tournament, co-hosted by Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. The tournament began back in 2010 with the first qualifying matches and finished with the dramatic win by unfancied Zambia over the favourites Ivory Coast, in the country where many of the 1993 Zambian side died in an air crash. This book records every match played in both the qualifying and finals tournaments, full line-ups in the 32 Finals matches, details of the national squads, top scorers, host stadiums plus an extended section on each of the previous 27 tournaments back to the first in 1957. 130 pages of facts and statistics covering all aspects of the competition.
Despite their own legacy of torment in Egypt, Jews in the U.S. varied in their attitudes toward the slave system, even after it provoked secession and rebellion in their new promised land. This discomfiting anomaly has been probed by scholars...
The book analyses the current problems in South Africa. Many people are seeing that unemployment and the plight of the masses will reach the point of no return. The gradual decline of the economy is due to various factors, but...
Cameroon's victory over Egypt in the final of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon brought the 31st edition of this tournament to an exciting close. This book includes a full summary of all the previous tournaments, then covers...
Ivory Coast's dramatic penalty shoot-out victory over Ghana in the final of the 2015 Asian Cup was the climax to a competition marked by superb goals, some controversial refereeing decisions and more than a few draws. This book includes a...
Nigeria's triumph over surprise finalists Burkina Faso in the Final of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations brought to a close the 29th edition of the tournament, hosted by South Africa. The tournament began in January 2012 with the preliminary...
This book examines the implementation and consequences of the Italian expatriate vote and representation introduced in 2001 in the external electoral colleges with special attention to the Electoral College known as Africa-Asia-Oceania-Antarctica. The Italian elections of 2006, 2008 and 2013...