There is a strange, almost romantic tension in the air at Milanello these days. AC Milan are preparing for a midweek clash against Bologna, but the true shadow hanging over the dressing room is Saturday’s Derby della Madonnina against Inter. Amorim, the man tasked with steering the Rossoneri through this treacherous stretch, knows that a coach can lose a season in the space of a week as easily as he can win one. With so many key players unavailable, the temptation would be to panic, to throw everything at Bologna and hope for the best. But Amorim is doing something…

It is one of the quiet ironies of the modern world that a continent so rich in stories is so often defined by stories told about it from elsewhere. Africa’s negative international reputation carries a price tag that is both staggering and, for many, invisible: billions of dollars lost every year through higher borrowing rates, missed investment, and constrained economic opportunity. But as Fadi El Abdallah, Chief Strategic Advisor for Reputation and Crisis Communications at APO Group, recently explained on SABC Channel Africa, the conversation about that reputation is rarely nuanced enough. Sometimes Africa is the victim of unfair media…