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Africa’s Elite Football: Structure, Politics, and Everyday Challenges book cover

1st Edition

Africa’s Elite Football Structure, Politics, and Everyday Challenges

Edited By Chuka Onwumechili Copyright 2020
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores various aspects of intranational elite football in Africa, drawing on the expertise of notable scholars from across the world. Africa’s Elite Football focuses on an area largely ignored by current scholarship on African football, where interest has focused on international migration. In exploring the intranational, the book is written in two parts. The first is a... Read more

Part 1: General Issues in African Football 

1. The Structure and Nature of Professional Elite Leagues in Africa
Chuka Onwumechili 

2. The State, Fans and Football Politics
Chuka Onwumechili, Totty O. Totty 

3. Elite Local Leagues and Transnational Broadcast of European Football
Unwana Samuel Akpan 

4. The Rise of Football Academies
Chuka Onwumechili and Jason Perry 

5. Socioeconomic Analysis of African Footballers’ Migration to Europe: Elements for Decision Making based on the West African Case
Ernest Y. Acheampong, Malek Bouhaouala and Michel Raspaud 

6. Intra-National Football Migrations and Impact
Chuka Onwumechili and Unwana Samuel Akpan 

7. Globalization of Football Match Fixing: Experiences from Africa
Manase Kudzai Chiweshe 

8. Culture of Magic and Sorcery in African Football
Simiyu Njororai 

9. African Fandom: From Cape Town to Cairo
Chuka Onwumechili 

Part 2: Country Cases 

10. From Ethnic Community to a Popular Culture: The Case of Gor Mahia Football Fandom in Kenya
Solomon Waliaula and Joseph Basil Okong’o 

11. Egypt: Encountering an Infusion of Middle East Cash
Chuka Onwumechili 

12. Nigeria: Women Football League and Struggle for Survival
Chuka Onwumechili and Mark Beckford 

13. What Model for Football Club Management in Africa? A Case Study of Two Football Teams in Senegal
Gerard Akindes 

14. Mediatization of Zimbabwe’s Professional Football League Management Style and Intellectual Property Rights in Crisis Times
Lyton Ncube and Nhamo Anthony Mhiripiri 

15. The Magical Economy of the Botswana Local Football League
Jimoh Shehu 

16. Religiosity in African Football: ‘Magic’ and Christianity in the Zambian Game in Colonial and Modern Times
Hikabwa D. Chipande, Nelly Mwale and Joseph Chita 

17. Nigeria: Health and Medical Issues in Elite Football
Babatunde Akinbinu, Ayomide Olabode, and Chukwuemeka Emmanuel Agi 

Biography

Chuka Onwumechili is Professor of Communications in the Strategic, Legal and Management Department at Howard University, Washington D.C., United States of America.

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