An unknown African woman believed to be in the southeastern African country of Malawi has broken the internet with her football juggling skills which she exhibits wearing an African wrap skirt and flipflops.
The viral video shared by Twitter user Akin Sawyerr on Saturday with the caption, “Talent is evenly distributed, opportunity isn’t”, shows an African woman juggling the football with her legs, head, shoulders, knees, hands and neck, as many people cheered.
https://twitter.com/AkinSawyerr/status/1096829588557176832
Garnering millions of views and thousands of Likes and Retweets, the woman’s talent received a big praise from the United States President Donald Trump who shared the video on Tuesday with the comment: “Amazing!”.
Amazing! https://t.co/uUNCL1hPAk
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 19, 2019
The identity and exact location of the viral woman are not known, but the only information available was that she spoke Swahili as heard in the video and she was in Malawi – as noted by other videos shared from the country.
The African woman is heard accepting a challenge from the audience to bounce 100 juggles. After the close to two-minute execution of their request, the woman said, “Pesa yenu ndogo” in Swahili which means, “Your money is not enough”, in reference to a possible bet.
While many Africans were tweeting about finding the woman after gaining the attention of the U.S. president, Americans criticised Trump for sharing the video which they described as “bizarre” and a “waste of time”.
These are the reactions of African Twitter uses to the video and Trump’s reaction.
Lol. Donald Trump RT you!
— Rebecca Enonchong (@africatechie) February 19, 2019
@Artskillsvirus @JNgalaba @jorge_shapiro Any idea what country this took place in? Folks have said Malawi, Kenya, and Tanzania.
— Rotus (@Rotankwot) February 18, 2019
It’s Malawi. There’s she is again. pic.twitter.com/jvFwrkkm91
— Vele (@jorge_shapiro) February 18, 2019
Thanks! RT @jorge_shapiro It’s Malawi. There’s she is again. pic.twitter.com/5tsFkCCNRx
— Rotus (@Rotankwot) February 18, 2019
Ball juggling doesn’t necessarily mean you are a good baller but I’ve got to give her credit.She even did all that with her skirt on. wild ?♂️
— RawSteen (@Simply_Jide) February 16, 2019
You forgot to mention with her flipflops also ??
— Damian® Daymos™ (@DJDaymos) February 17, 2019
#Q Sent me… errrr I mean @realDonaldTrump sent me! Love those soccer skills girl, keep it up!
— Dman Lionhardt (@DManFWTX) February 19, 2019
And here are reactions of Americans to Donald Trump’s interest in the woman’s talent.
hey guys call me crazy but I’m beginning to suspect that our president has the attention span of a coked-up squirrel
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) February 19, 2019
Yeah how dare he waste time. ? pic.twitter.com/lfTIxC3BuJ
— CF John 8:32 (@FasslerCynthia) February 19, 2019
It’s bizarre.
— thereal_hair (@thereal_hair) February 19, 2019
Trump’s actually human?
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) February 19, 2019
We’re apparently in day 3 of a national emergency, and Trump is tweeting about things he’s watching on TV and random videos he found on the Internet.
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) February 19, 2019
My goodness…no matter what the President does someone has got to make a bad thing out of it. Give it a break!!!! Thanks for sharing Mr President!!!
— Dawn (@Davcam1216) February 19, 2019