Identity and nation in African football
Subtitle: fans, community and clubs
By: edited by Chuka Onwumechili, Gerard Akindes
Series: Global culture and sport
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781137355805
Subjects: Soccer
Description: Focusing on identity in African soccer, explores issues of race, radicalization, and self-identification in players and supporters.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Africa, fandom, and shifting identities : an introduction to football and identity  -- Chuka Onwumechili and Gerard Akindes; title: Blurring touchlines of empire : the diasporic identities of Arthur Wharton and Walter Tull --; title: It's all about the beautiful game of football, or is it? : on television and football in North Africa  -- Ali Ziyati and Gerard Akindes; title: Rooted in history : politics, identity, and ultras in North African soccer  -- James M. Dorsey; title: The history and identity of East African football within the African context  -- Wycliffe Njororai; title: Performing Luo identity in Kenya : songs of Gor Mahia  -- Solomon Waliaula and Joseph Basil Okong'o; title: A centennial rivalry, Ahly vs Zamalek : identity and society in modern Egypt  -- Michel Raspaud and Monia Lachheb; title: Nigeria : Rangers, Igbo identity, and the imagination of war  -- Chuka Onwumechili; title: Reinforcing divisions and blurring boundaries in Johannesburg football fandom  -- Marc Fletcher; title: Shifting identity and Cameroon's national football squad : indomitable lions to tamed lambs  -- Walter Gam Nkwi; title: Fields of dreams and champions : a case study in Kenyan girls' football  -- Anna Tranfaglia; title: Oh Lord, you are the Lord who remembered John Obi Mikel  -- Chuka Onwumechili; title: CAF : perennial struggle in crises of identity  -- Chuka Onwumechili; title: From stadium to bars : transnational media and the African fan identity  -- Gerard Akindes -- dt Online football fan identities and cyber-fandoms in Zimbabwe / -- Manase Kudzai Chiweshe; title: From Leopoldville to Liège : a conversation with Paul Bonga Bonga -- Gerard Akindes and Peter Alegi.