Identity and Nation in African Football [electronic resource] : Fans, Community and Clubs /
Onwumechili, C.editor.
Akindes, G.editor.
The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage. This volume brings together top scholars on African football to explore a range of issues such as gender, identity, nationalism, history, cyber-fandom, the media and fan radicalization.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Africa, Fandom, and Shifting Identities: An Introduction to Football and Identity; Part I: History and Recording Identities; 1 Blurring Touchlines of Empire: The Diasporic Identities of Arthur Wharton and Walter Tull; 2 It's All About the Beautiful Game of Football, or Is It? On Television and Football in North Africa; 3 Rooted in History: Politics, Identity, and Ultras in North African Soccer; 4 The History and Identity of East African Football within the African Context; Part II: Ethnicity/Race, Club, and Identity
5 Performing Luo Identity in Kenya: Songs of Gor Mahia6 A Centennial Rivalry, Ahly vs Zamalek: Identity and Society in Modern Egypt; 7 Nigeria: Rangers, Igbo Identity, and the Imagination of War; 8 Reinforcing Divisions and Blurring Boundaries in Johannesburg Football Fandom; Part III: Nation, Football, and Identity; 9 Shifting Identity and Cameroon's National Football Squad: Indomitable Lions to Tamed Lambs; 10 Fields of Dreams and Champions: A Case Study in Kenyan Girls' Football; 11 Oh Lord, You Are the Lord who Remembered John Obi Mikel; Part IV: Identity from Outside
12 CAF: Perennial Struggle in Crises of Identity13 From Stadium to Bars: Transnational Media and African Fan Identity; 14 Online Football Fan Identities and Cyber-fandoms in Zimbabwe; 15 From Leopoldville to Liège: A Conversation with Paul Bonga Bonga; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage. This volume brings together top scholars on African football to explore a range of issues such as gender, identity, nationalism, history, cyber-fandom, the media and fan radicalization.
Economic development.
Sports-Sociological aspects.
Political science.
Ethnology-Africa.
Sociology.
Africa-History.
Development Studies.
Sociology of Sport and Leisure.
Political Science.
African Culture.
Sociology, general.
African History.