this is parfait ndong. bonjour. man who risked everything to reveal the horrors of a scandal that has rocked african football. in the 1990s, he was a star player for gabon, selected 45 times to play for his country. the striker played most of his professional career in europe, before injury forced him to quit and he became a coach in switzerland. in 2019, he returned home to gabon and set up his own football academy. and the changes, says parfait, were shocking. he discovered that sexual abuse of young players at all levels of gabonese football was rife, and he claims that warning signs were being ignored. in 2018, shiva n'zigou, a former star striker for the gabonese international team, went public about the sexual abuse he himself had faced during his career. parfait says he took his concerns to the highest powers in gabonese football. in desperation, parfait turned to local media. then, in december 2021, everything changed. a british newspaper, the guardian, named several leading figures in gabonese football alle