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Wild cheers, wild bites: Football meets game meat in Dar es Salaam

Roasted game meat for sale at a stall outside Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on August 7, 2025. The stall offers delicacies of buffalo, antelope, gazelle, and wildebeest to football fans and other customers. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

As the rhythmic bursts of drums and vuvuzelas electrify the air and the African Nations Championship (CHAN) roars to life inside Benjamin Mkapa Stadium, another kind of heat is rising just outside Gate A.

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