African Soccerscapes : How a Continent Changed the World's Game

African Soccerscapes : How a Continent Changed the World's Game / Peter Alegi.

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. A...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alegi, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press : Ohio University Center for International Studies, ©2010.
Series:Africa in world history.
Subjects:
Soccer > Africa > History.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
Soccer
Fußball
Football > Afrique > Histoire.
Africa
Afrika
History
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Table of 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.

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