Why decades of tournaments, coaching clinics, and talent programs across Africa and emerging sports markets have failed to build sustainable economies — and what separates an ecosystem that creates and retains value from one that simply generates activity.

A framework naming the value illiteracy at the root of 65 years of sports development failure across Africa and emerging markets — and the architecture, governance model and standard required to fix it.

The founding paper behind the CPM framework — a structured, lifecycle-oriented approach to athlete career navigation across fragmented sports ecosystems.

Sport in Africa has always been sold as a pathway to youth empowerment, national pride, and economic growth — but the sector remains weak, underfunded, and commercially stagnant. Six structural issues, and a path forward.