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Quidditch World Cup 2016 hopes to feature first African team

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, May 4, 2016 | 9:27 AM

A Ugandan team is raising money to attend the real-world championship of the broomstick-borne sport played in the Harry Potter novels

A crowdfunding campaign aiming to make Uganda the first African team to compete in the Quidditch World Cup has more than quadrupled its goal, less than two weeks after launch.

The worldwide quidditch tournament is due to take place on 23 and 24 July in Frankfurt. The competition, run by the International Quidditch Association, has taken place biennially since 2012, with the US winning the 2014 championship (the UK came fourth). It is based on the game made famous in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books – both versions take place on broomsticks, although broomsticks in the real world have so far stubbornly refused to fly.

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