Football (soccer) in Africa : origins, contributions, and contradictions / Augustine E. Ayuk, editor.

This volume provides an analysis of the history, origins, and development of football in Africa. It brings together an edited assemblage of essays that describe and analyse football in nine African countries, including Cameroon, DRC, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda, f...

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Other Authors: Ayuk, Augustine E. (Editor)
Format: Ebook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Series:Global culture and sport.
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Online Access:Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2022 English/International
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Summary:This volume provides an analysis of the history, origins, and development of football in Africa. It brings together an edited assemblage of essays that describe and analyse football in nine African countries, including Cameroon, DRC, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda, from a social science perspective. The selection of these countries highlights the three major foreign languages and powers that have governed the continent; The English, the French, and Arabic, and provides a prism through which to analyze and compare how football developed in the various countries throughout Africa. This comparative methodology allow readers to identify similarities and differences in the progression of the game on the continent, and by focusing on football, an important relic of European colonialism in Africa, underscores the continued dependence on, and domination of Europeans on the Africans. In situating the genesis of the game, contributors examine and analyze the history, development, management, and mismanagement by bureaucrats at the political level as well as at various football federations throughout the continent.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations.
ISBN:303094865X
9783030948658
3030948668
9783030948665
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