Boxing is no Cakewalk! Azumah 'Ring Professor' Nelson in the Social History of Ghanaian Boxing / De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Botchway, De-Valera N. Y. M. (De-Valera Nana Yaw Mpere), author.

Series:

African humanities series.

African humanities series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nelson, Azumah, 1958-.

Boxing--Social aspects--Ghana.

Boxing.

Boxing--Ghana--History.

Boxers (Sports)--Ghana--Biography.

Boxers (Sports).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 265 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Boxing is no cakewalk! Azumah 'Ring Professor' Nelson in the Social History of Ghanaian Boxing explores the social history of boxing in Ghana and its interesting nexus with the biography of Azumah Nelson, unquestionably Ghana's most celebrated boxer. The book posits that sports constitute more than mere games that people play. They are endowed with enormous political, cultural, economic and social power that can influence people's lives in various ways. Boxing is no cakewalk! interrogates the social meaning and impact of boxing within the colonial and postcolonial milieux of popular culture in Ghana. Consequently, it reconsiders the prevailing conception of boxing as adversative to 'enlightened' human culture by arguing that it is a positive formulator of individual and national identities. The historicising of sports and the lives of sportspersons in Ghana provides an eloquent backdrop for an understanding of the past social dynamics and their effect in the present. The book's analytical narrative offers an intellectual contribution to the promising areas of social and cultural history in Ghana's historiography and the scholarly discourse on identity formation and social empowerment through the popular culture of sports.

Contents:

Sports and modern boxing

Roots of modern boxing in Ghana

Origins? 'I am the son of my people'

The rise of the Azumah legend : the early years

The legend continues : the glory years

The beginning of the end : retirement

More than pain and passion: Azumah Nelson's out-of-the-ring life.

Notes:

"Published in South Africa on behalf of the African Humanities Program by NISC."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-259) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781920033576

1920033572

OCLC:

1114975448