CURRENT MISSION

Africa...piece by piece.

ABOUT ME

Ed is an African football expert who writes about the continent’s sport often from a political, cultural, or religious perspective.

He resides in France and has spent time in North and South Africa.

He is currently Features Editor at Goal Nigeria, a Featured Columnist with Bleacher Report, the Editor of Africa Football Shop and the Primary Features Writer at Kick Off Nigeria.

His work on Africa is featured in the Official FIFA 2014 World Cup Guide as well as the Official Tournament Programme.

He has had work published in various Nigerian newspapers and journals, and has written for In Bed With Maradona, Soccer Laduma, Supersport, Goal International, Goal Ghana, World Soccer, BBC Sport, King Fut, Kick Off, Bleacher Report, Match of the Day Magazine Lovely Left Foot, and Newsround.

He has also been featured on the radio, with Talk Sport, Citi FM, Sirius Radio; and on TV, with Bloomberg.

You can contact him at Eddy_Dove@hotmail.com or via his Facebook or Twitter @Eddydove

CC

Interests

Words, Writing, Literature, Colours, Africa, Football, Tottenham Hotspur, France, African Football, Theology, Scarves, Photography, Brian Clough, Travelling, Stubble - The Right kind, Capital Cities, Music, Films, The Cairo Nightlife, The life and times of Madeleine St-Amour,Club Courageous,Rugby - TCRFC, Shorty Story and Poetry Writing, Church, Dreaming, Yeung Chow Society with Al, Dancing, stealing other people’s clothes, Playing guitar with Andy, Hill College Theatre Company, Trevs Jazz, Writing my diary, Going to Wales with my friends and spending a whole day in the Porth Ysgo Sun, Travelling back to Cape Verde to spend time with my family back there, Spending time with Spartak Israel (Ledley, Tom, Nath, Edgar, Mohammed, Michael, Andy, Andy, Zizou, Chris and myself), Being a Bra

• writing
• literature
• poetry
• photography
• dancing
• nightlife
• clubbing
• shopping
• clothing
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• guitar
• sports
• soccer
• rugby
• world cup
• divinity
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Favourite Music:
The Beatles, Astral Weeks Van Morrison, The Arctic Monkeys, Reel Big Fish, Los Campesinos, Gabriel Yared, Carla Bruni, Bob Dylan, Erik Satie, Radiohead, Bedouin Soundclash, The Kinks, Debussy, James Taylor, Luciano Berio, Simon & Garfunkel, The Marimba concertos of Rosauro, Roy Harper, Varney & sons

My Top 20 Songs: Real Love (Beatles), You Know My name-Look up the number (Beatles), Only Ones Who Know (Arctic Monkeys), I’m Only Sleeping (Beatles), A Minor Incident (Badly Drawn Boy), Slim Slow Slider (Van Morrison), Astral Weeks (Van Morrison), Beer (Reel Big Fish), Mardy Bum (Arctic Monkeys), Hurricane (Bob Dylan), Madame George (Van Morrison), Summer Sequence (Blood Brothers), Don’t Let me Down (Beatles), She has a girlfriend now (Reel Big Fish), Dreaming of You (The Coral), Something to talk about (Badly Drawn Boy), Sexy Sadie (Beatles), I will (Beatles), Here, there and Everywhere (Beatles), A light Romance (Blood Brothers)
Favourite Films:
The English Patient, Notting Hill, The Rock, A True Romance, About a Boy, Four Weddings and a funeral (Hugh), Pulp Fiction, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, A Hard Day’s Night, The World is Not Enough, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, No Country for Old Man, Legends of the Fall, Amelie, Etre et Avoir, Moulin Rouge, City of God, The Damned United, The Shawshank Redeption, Goldeneye, Goodfellas, The Darjeeling Limited (&Hotel Chevalier), Let it Be, Amores Perros, This is Spinal Tap, A Love Story.
Favourite Books:
Herodotus, The Book of Job, The Succession Narrative (2 Samuel, 1 Kings etc), The Dubliners- James Joyce (particularly ‘The Dead’), The Art of Biblical Narrative – Robert Alter, Anna Karenina, Kim, The Beatles songbook, Les Miserables, Old Bear, Paradise Lost, Elephants, Eagles and Lions, A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens, My diaries – a fascinating read but perhaps only for me, In his own write, A Spaniard in the Works – John Lennon, A Big coffee table book I own on the best ever football photographs- incredible, Who moved the stone?, Political Philosophy – Swift, The rough Guide to Egypt, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Either/Or – Soren Kierkegaard, The Rough guide to Capital Cities, A little book I have at home called ‘Flags of the World’, The Romantics, Michael Ondaatje, Under Milk Wood, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, The Building of Modern Africa

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The National Theatre of Bucharest rooftop in a thunderstorm...ask me about it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United Kingdom