1st Edition
African Fans of European Football Cultural Globalisation in Kenya and Zimbabwe
Chapter 1: Transnational soccer fan identities and cultures in Africa: An Introduction to Kenya and Zimbabwe
Manase Kudzai Chiweshe and Solomon Waliaula
Chapter 2: Thirty years of the English Premier League in Africa: Transnational fandoms, glocal engagements and everyday entanglements
Manase Kudzai Chiweshe and Gerald Dandah
Chapter 3: Local Patterns of European Football Reception and Status Identification in Eldoret, Kenya
Solomon Waliaula
Chapter 4: European Football Fandom: Nightlife and Patterns of Entertainment on Nairobi’s Ngong Road and Langata Road
Fredrick Mbogo
Chapter 5: Football Commentary and Celebrity Fandom in Kenya
Solomon Waliaula and Maureen Amimo
Chapter 6: Fans and Cash Transactions in Slum Area: Case of English Football in Mathare Valley Area of Nairobi, Kenya
Maurice Omollo
Chapter 7: Transnational soccer fan identities and cultures in Harare, Zimbabwe
Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
Chapter 8: Chelsea Fandom in Zimbabwe: Localizing the Global
Tendai Mangena
Chapter 9: Ronaldo vs Messi: Glocal explorations of European Champions League rivalries in Zimbabwe
Manase Kudzai Chiweshe and Gerald Dandah
Chapter 10: The agony of waiting for the big kick-off: Understanding the significance of the English Premier League fandom in Murombedzi, Zimbabwe
Washington Chirambaguwa
Chapter 11: Women who watch and support English football in Zimbabwe: A transnational analysis of female fandoms
Manase Kudzai Chiweshe and Tafadzwa Blessing Choto
Chapter 12: Concluding Remarks: A Comparative Analysis of Soccer Fandom in Kenya and Zimbabwe
Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
Biography
Manase Kudzai Chiweshe is an award-winning researcher and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Community and Social Development at the University of Zimbabwe and a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Rhodes University, South Africa. Dr. Chiweshe’s research interests include the sociology of everyday life in African spaces, focusing on football, gender, social identity, and livelihoods.
Solomon Waliaula holds a PhD in Literature from Moi University, Kenya and the University of Mainz, Germany and an M.A. in Literature from Moi University, Kenya. A DAAD Scholar and Alexander Von Humboldt alumnus, He is an Associate Professor in Literary and Cultural Studies at Maasai Mara University in Kenya, a Research Associate at the Department of African Literature at the University of Watersrand, South Africa and a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Mainz. His research interests are in popular culture and cultural studies, focusing on electronic media audiences. His current project is on cinema and narration in East Africa and has been generously funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
