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African soccerscapes : how a continent changed the world's game

Author: Peter Alegi
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press : Ohio University Center for International Studies, ©2010.
Series: Africa in world history.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Alegi
ISBN: 9780896802780 0896802787 9780896804722 0896804720
OCLC Number: 468233504
Description: xvi, 179 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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.
Series Title: Africa in world history.
Responsibility: Peter Alegi.

Abstract:

"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 soccer stadiums and clubhouses became arenas in which Africans challenged colonial power and expressed a commitment to racial equality and self-determination. New nations staged matches as part of their independence celebrations and joined the world body, FIFA. The Confederation africaine de football democratized the global game through antiapartheid sanctions and increased the number of African teams in the World Cup finals." "In this compact, highly readable book Alegi shows that the result of this success has been the departure of huge numbers of players to overseas clubs and the growing influence of private commercial interests on the African game. But the growth of women's soccer and South Africa's hosting of the 2010 World Cup also challenge the one-dimensional notion of Africa as a backward, "tribal" continent populated by victims of war, corruption, famine, and disease."--Jacket.

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