By Daniel Nii Okine for Sankofaonline News Desk Ghana’s Black Maidens have secured qualification to the 2026 FIFA U‑17 Women’s World Cup in Morocco after a tense, nerve‑stretching victory over Senegal settled only by penalties. Their triumph, earned through discipline, resilience, and unshakable belief, marks another proud chapter in Ghana’s […]

Veteran Ghanaian sports photojournalist Kwabena Ofori has spent more than three decades documenting some of the world’s biggest sporting moments while helping to amplify African stories on the international stage. Ofori has built a career defined by passion, consistency and international recognition spanning FIFA World Cups and Olympic Games to […]

Ghana’s Black Maidens delivered a gritty, disciplined performance in Dakar today, battling Senegal to a 1–1 draw in the first leg of the FIFA U‑17 Women’s World Cup qualifiers. It was a contest charged with intensity, national pride, and the unmistakable hunger of two rising forces in African women’s football. […]

Sankofaonline Sports News Desk Italian coach Gennaro Gattuso’s recent complaint about Africa receiving nine World Cup slots is more than a football argument , it is a window into a long‑standing mindset that still struggles to accept Africa as an equal stakeholder in global sport. Sankofaonline will not tiptoe around […]

The group stage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup closed under a cloud of controversy, with Video Assistant Referee decisions and non-decisions shaping qualification outcomes, eliminating hopeful nations, and igniting worldwide criticism. The tournament adopted an unusually high threshold for video review, yet the absence of consistency and clarity in […]