African Soccerscapes : How a Continent Changed the World's Game
ISBN: 9780896802780 | 0896802787
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Ohio Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 3/2/2010
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From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, Africans have wrested control of soccer from the hands of Europeans, and through the rise of different playing styles, the rich rituals of spectatorship, and the presence of magicians and healers, have turned soccer into a distinctively African activity.African Soccerscapesexplores how Africans adopted soccer for their own reasons and on their own terms. Soccer was a rare form of "national culture" in postcolonial Africa, where stadiums and clubhouses became arenas in which Africans challenged co... MORE
| List of Illustrations | p. ix |
| Prologue | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| "The White Man's Burden" Football and Empire, 1860s-1919 | p. 1 |
| The Africanization of Football, 1920s-1940s | p. 14 |
| Making Nations in Late Colonial Africa, 1940s-1964 | p. 36 |
| Nationhood, Pan-Africanism, and Football after Independence | p. 54 |
| Football Migration to Europe since the 1930s | p. 78 | ... MORE
| The Privatization of Football, 1980s to Recent Times | p. 104 |
| Epilogue South Africa 2010: The World Cup Comes to Africa | p. 127 |
| Notes | p. 133 |
| Bibliography | p. 159 |
| Series Editors' Note | p. 171 |
| Index | p. 173 |
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Peter Alegi is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University and the author of Laduma! Soccer, Politics, and Society in South Africa. He is an editorial board member of the International Journal of African Historical Studies and book review editor of Soccer and Society.
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