| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 179 pages :) : illustrations, maps |
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Africa in world history.
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OldControl:muse9780896804722. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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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Print version record. |
| 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. |
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Soccer -- Africa -- History.
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Soccer -- Africa -- History.
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Soccer.
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Sports.
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GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
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Soccer. (OCoLC)fst01122119
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Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Alegi, Peter. African Soccerscapes : How a Continent Changed the World's Game. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, ©2010 |
| ISBN |
9780896804722 (electronic bk.) |
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0896804720 (electronic bk.) |
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