An icon of democratic governance in Africa, Ghana is arguably the gateway to the continent. But football is perhaps putting Ghana on the lips of the international media more than politics.

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Radio Netherlands Worlwide supports the Twenty Ten programme, a collaboration between World Press Photo, FreeVoice, Africa Media Online, and lokaalmondiaal with funding from the Dutch Postcode Lottery. Over 100 African journalists in 34 African countries produce in-depth, fairly timeless features relating to African football and the impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on the continent. The stories are told in words, pictures and sound.

First African nation to qualify to the 2010 World Cup and winner of the FIFA Under-20 soccer tournament, Ghanaians are obviously excited at the laurels of the national teams. Now, talks in Ghana are about how the country can reap economically from these recent feats.
 

In this report for Twenty Ten, Kofi Adu Domfeh looks at what some African countries are doing to benefit from South Africa 2010 and questions how Ghana can market football as a tourism product.

See also below a series of photos by Adolphus Opara for Twenty Ten

Ghanaians are passionate about two main things, their traditions and their soccer. This feature is a set of images from the annual Fetu Afahye festival which takes place in Cape coast area of Ghana and also a football match, the 2010 world cup qualifier match between Ghana and Sudan in which Ghana emerged victorious.

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