A Cameroonian striker once mocked at his football debut in France is to become the world’s highest paid footballer it was revealed.
Samuel Eto’o is to earn £17.5 million a season after tax – the equivalent of one Euro per second. This will make him the highest paid footballer in the world, after being signed up by Suleiman Kerimov, the Russian oligarch billionaire oil tycoon and …

Centuries after the founder of the Zulu Empire was murdered by his half-brothers, his last words became the sword of Damocles that cursed Africa.
When Shaka ka Senzangakhona, Zulu king, was stabbed by Dingane and Mhlangana at kwaDukuza (in what has become South Africa) on September 24, 1828, the first of the two killers assumed the throne. His decision to defy Shaka’s dying words were to …