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HARARE， Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) president Gianni Infantino on Friday met Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and pledged support towards development of football in the country.

Infantino was accompanied by his secretary general Fatma Samoura and other top world and African football executives during the closed door meeting with Mugabe at State House that lasted an hour， state-run news agency New Ziana reported.

Infantino and his colleagues were in Zimbabwe for a joint celebration of Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) president Phillip Chiyangwa's birthday as well as his elevation to head the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA).

President Mugabe is a self-declared lover of football.

Infantino told journalists after the meeting that the international governing body of soccer was working on a number of projects to develop soccer in Zimbabwe.

"There are some concrete projects which have already started which we are fully supporting and we would like to thank the government for having embraced these projects such as the project to create 8，000 football clubs around the whole country to develop grassroots football in a structured way from the grassroots up the pyramid to the elite football，" he was quoted as saying.

Infantino said they also discussed the project of a national football academy in Zimbabwe which they hop would revolutionize football in the country.

Zimbabwe finished last with only one point in the group stage of the recent 2017 Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Gabon. Enditem

Mark Mathabane's 1986 autobiography Trai Turner Panthers Jersey , Kaffir Boy, describes his upbringing under South African apartheid and the process by which he escapes to the United States. A bright student, young Mark devours the books his mother's white employer lends him, and through their relationship, he also begins playing tennis ? which was pretty high on the list of white and upper-crusty sports in those days. Under the guidance of a black player Ryan Kalil Panthers Jersey , Mark becomes so skilled that he is invited to play at an all-white tennis club.

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In a similar tradition of African literature is Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who is best known for a series of novels about British colonization that includes Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease. Although Achebe is the most widely-translated African author in the world, he has received strong criticism for not writing in his native Igbo. Unlike Mathabane Christian McCaffrey Panthers Jersey , Achebe still called Africa home when he decided to write in English.

Just as Mathabane finds himself defending his participation in the tennis open, Achebe must argue for his use of English over Igbo. First, English is the only language spoken across all of Nigeria (not to mention most of the rest of the world), which allows his message to reach millions instead of just thousands or even hundreds. Secondly, Achebe never allows the language to confine him; he manipulates English to conform to Igbo style Curtis Samuel Youth Jersey , mimic its cadence, and express its proverbs. By "extending the frontiers of English so as to accommodate African thought-patterns," Achebe forces the language to serve him, thus subverting voice of the colonizer to convey that of the oppressed.

ISLAMABAD, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Two foreign climbers attempting to scale world's ninth highest peak Nanga Parbat in northern Pakistan have gone missing Marquis Haynes Youth Jersey , officials said on Wednesday.

Karrar Haidri, a spokesman of Pakistan's Alpine Club, said the climbers Alberto Zerain Berasategi, 55, from Spain and Mariano Galacan Rashaan Gaulden Youth Jersey , 37, from Argentina went missing since Saturday while attempting to climb the 8,126-meter summit, known as the Killer Mountain in Gilgit-Baltistan region in north of Pakistan.

"A 14-member team of foreigners along with 50 local guides and porters started their campaign on June 18, but they had to quit their mission due to bad weather. Twelve members of the team have returned to the base camp while two of them are still missing Devin Funchess Youth Jersey ," said Haidri.

The organizer of the campaign has sent a couple of rescue teams but they had to come back due to snow avalanche and inclement weather.

An army helicopter is now being used to search the missing mountaineers likely to be hit by the snow avalanche.

According to the Summit Karakoram, the organizer of the campaign, the two climbers stopped at an altitude of 6,100 meters for couple of days due to poor weather and when they restarted their campaign they lost the contact.

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