I'm about

Yebbada.

Get on it.

The only up and another tax for Zambia.

So the total of the up to sell me.

You can't go! Football much loved all over the world and especially in Africa where matches are a fist for the eyes and ears.

Funds painted in national colours pound on drums and blow on trumpets

and the highly controversial vuvuselas. It's a joyous and It's a joyous and intoxicating atmosphere that I've had the pleasure of soaking up so many times.

I'm Faray Mungazin.

And this year, the Africa Cup of Nations, the continent's biggest football showcase celebrates 60 years.

So over the next hour for the BBC Wall Service, I'll be looking beyond the pitch into the

complex world of football and African politics.

From Angola to Gambia to Zimbabwe,

many political leaders have taken credit for football success

as though they had scored the winning goal themselves. Others have used it to

build their nations or to divert people's attention away from economic wars and oppression

and to score political points against rivals.

And nowhere was this political point squaring more evident than in the run up to the 1996 Africa Cup of Nations.

Nelson Mandela and the newly free South Africa were hosting the tournament for the first time.

The defending champions were the super euels of Nigeria, under the military rule of General

Sani Abacha.

On the 10th of November 1995, Abacher defied worldwide condemnation and pushed ahead with the execution of

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