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Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation book cover

1st Edition

Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation

Edited By Michael J. Gennaro, Saheed Aderinto Copyright 2019
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge
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Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation explores how sports can render a key to unlocking complex social, political, economic, and gendered relations across Africa and the Diaspora. Sports hold significant value and have an intricate relationship with many components of African societies throughout history. For many Africans, sports are a way of life, a site of cultural... Read more

Introduction
Michael Gennaro and Saheed Aderinto 

Part 1: Region-Based Essays 

West and Central Africa 

1. "I Was Really Disgusted at Seeing Healthy Young Boys Playing Ping Pong": Ping-Pong and Masculinity in Post–World War II Nigeria
Michael Gennaro 

2. Pas de Deux as I Tell You: Physical Education, Dance, and the Remaking of Discipline in World War II Brazzaville
Danielle Porter Sanchez 

3. Cameroonian Cricket: The Interface between Local and Dominant Colonial Ideologies
Joanne Clarke 

4. Political Action in Sports Development Under the National Liberation Council (NLC) Era in Ghana
Kwame Adum-Kyeremeh 

5. "The Best of the Best": The Politicization of Sports under Ghana’s Supreme Military Council
Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum 

Southern Africa 

6. "We Have Material Second to None": Colored Sportsmen and Masculine Competition in the South African Press, 1936–1960
Cody S. Perkins 

7. Playing Away from Home: The Nature of Soccer Integration in South Africa, 1978–1984
Gustav Venter 

8. Examining Physical Culture in a Local Context
Francois Cleophas 

9. "Visionary Courtyard Players": The Robben Island Rugby Board and the Transition to Post-Apartheid South Africa, c. 1972–1992
Hendrik Snyders 

10. The Birth of the Springboks: How Early International Rugby Matches Unified White Cultural Identity in South Africa
Zachary R. Bigalke 

11. A Tale of Two Sports Fields: Contested Spaces, Histories, and Identities at Play in Rural South Africa
Tarminder Kaur 

North and East Africa

12. The Bulldog, the Pharaoh, and Football: British Imperialism and Egypt’s National Sport and Identity, 1882–1934
Christopher Ferraro 

13. Sports and Physical Education in Ethiopia during the Italian Occupation, 1936–1941
Tamirat Gebremariam and Benoit Gaudin 

Part 2: Theme-Based Essays 

Diaspora and the Economic and International Dimension 

14. Commercialization of Football in Africa: Prospects, Challenges, and Experiences
Manase Chiweshe 

15. Islam and the Foreign Other: Representing the Alterity of Hakeem Olajuwon
Munene Mwaniki 

16. Afro-Orientalism in the Global Village: Media Imaginations of South Africa and Africa in the Coverage of the 2010 World Cup
Shepherd Mpofu 

Biography

Michael J. Gennaro is Assistant Professor of History at Bossier Parish Community College, USA.

Saheed Aderinto is Associate Professor of History at Western Carolina University, USA.

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