Identity and nation in African football : fans, community and clubs / edited by Chuka Onwumechili, Gerard Akindes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Onwumechili, Chuka, compiler.

Akindes, Gerard, compiler.

Series:

Global culture and sport

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer--Social aspects--Africa.

Soccer.

Soccer--Social aspects.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xii, 272 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

[England] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

The 2010 World Cup in South African launched African football onto the global stage and African footballers are increasingly present at the best clubs in the world, yet it is rare to find compelling scholarship on the subject. This book brings some of the top scholars on African football together to produce a collection that covers the diverse regions of the continent and diverse football topics. Focussing on aspects of identity, it spans issues of race, radicalization and self-identification, exploring the imagined continuation of war in support of a Nigerian club, the use of songs in support of a club and an ethnic community, and the effects of transnational broadcasting on supporter identification with football in Africa. This collection provides a valuable contribution to debates about African sport and identity and also contains an interview with one of Africa's first migrant footballers, Paul Bonga Bonga. Book jacket.

Contents:

Africa, fandom, and shifting identities : an introduction to football and identity / Chuka Onwumechili and Gerard Akindes

Blurring touchlines of empire : the diasporic identities of Arthur Wharton and Walter Tull

It's all about the beautiful game of football, or is it? : on television and football in North Africa / Ali Ziyati and Gerard Akindes

Rooted in history : politics, identity, and ultras in North African soccer / James M. Dorsey

The history and identity of East African football within the African context / Wycliffe Njororai

Performing Luo identity in Kenya : songs of Gor Mahia / Solomon Waliaula and Joseph Basil Okong'o

A centennial rivalry, Ahly vs Zamalek : identity and society in modern Egypt / Michel Raspaud and Monia Lachheb

Nigeria : Rangers, Igbo identity, and the imagination of war / Chuka Onwumechili

Reinforcing divisions and blurring boundaries in Johannesburg football fandom / Marc Fletcher

Shifting identity and Cameroon's national football squad : indomitable lions to tamed lambs / Walter Gam Nkwi

Fields of dreams and champions : a case study in Kenyan girls' football / Anna Tranfaglia

Oh Lord, you are the Lord who remembered John Obi Mikel / Chuka Onwumechili

CAF : perennial struggle in crises of identity / Chuka Onwumechili

From stadium to bars : transnational media and the African fan identity / Gerard Akindes

dt Online football fan identities and cyber-fandoms in Zimbabwe / Manase Kudzai Chiweshe

From Leopoldville to Liège : a conversation with Paul Bonga Bonga / Gerard Akindes and Peter Alegi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1137355808

9781137355805

OCLC:

865063380