African soccerscapes : how a continent changed the world's game / Peter Alegi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alegi, Peter, author.

Series:

Africa in world history.

Africa in world history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer--Africa--History.

Soccer.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press : Ohio University Center for International Studies, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 rituals of spectatorship, and the presence of magicians and healers, have turned soccer into a distinctively African activity. African Soccerscapes explores 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 colonial power and express

Contents:

"The white man's burden" : football and empire, 1860s/1919

The Africanization of football, 1920s/1940s

Making nations in late colonial Africa, 1940s/1964

Nationhood, Pan-Africanism, and football after independence

Football migration to Europe since the 1930s

The privatization of football, 1980s to recent times

South Africa 2010 : the World Cup comes to Africa.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780896804722

0896804720

OCLC:

884016781