Pictures by Guy Peterson. Video by Eleonore Sens
Osman Fofana, a 17-year-old student in Liberia’s capital Monrovia, could not contain his excitement as he walked onto a new football field in his slum community of Clara Town.
“It’s astonishing”, he said at a recent school gathering at a sports complex supported by President George Weah’s government.
“We, the youth, pray that George Weah will be re-elected”.
Weah, a former international football star who was born in Clara Town, is seeking a second term as president of the West African…