Football and Africa
ISSN: 3055-0262

Series Editors:
Emeka Enyadike
Colm Hickey

Emeka Enyadike is the Founder and CEO of EEXSport, Co-Founder of Sports Network Africa, Director of Digital Sports Africa, and Africa Director of RESULT Sports Germany. He has worked with some of the biggest organisations in global sport, including FIFA, where he served as a Global Media Relations Consultant during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. He is the author of Football Analysis Paralysis and How to Build a Career in Sports. He serves on the Board of the University of Port Harcourt Sports Institute, the Advisory Board of the World Freestyle Football Association (WFFA), and the Boards of Vision FC (Rwanda) and SPN Africa. He is currently a member of the Olympic Studies Programme of the German Sport University Cologne.

Colm Hickey holds a PhD from Strathclyde University, an MBA from Hull University, an MA in Catholic School Leadership from St Mary’s University and an MA in the History of Education from the University of London. He spent 30 years in secondary education and was a head teacher for six years. He was the Director of the John Paul II Foundation for Sport and is Director of EEXSports Academy in Nigeria. He has written approximately twenty articles and book chapters. He co-authored with J. A. Mangan, Soccer’s Missing Men Schoolteachers and the Development of Association Football. He is the author of The London Geordies. The History of Hanwell Town Football Club. He lives in Hanwell with his wife and three sons.