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Africa's Elite Football - Structure, Politics, and Everyday Challenges (Hardcover)
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Africa's Elite Football - Structure, Politics, and Everyday Challenges (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Africa
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This book explores various aspects of intranational elite football
in Africa, drawing on the expertise of notable scholars from across
the world. Africa's Elite Football focuses on an area largely
ignored by current scholarship on African football, where interest
has focused on international migration. In exploring the
intranational, the book is written in two parts. The first is a
general focus on the continent, and the second is an examination of
country cases. The general focus of the book is on the nature of
elite tier leagues, the relationship between politics and football,
the media, youth academies, intranational migration and fans.
Notably, chapters on topics such as intranational migration present
groundbreaking scholarship in this area. Currently, football
discourses on migration focus on international migration of
footballers, yet the majority of migration in African football is
intranational. Thus, by addressing the intranational, this book
brings attention to an area that is underrepresented in the current
academic discourse. The second part of the book, which focuses on
country cases, covers Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal,
Zambia and Zimbabwe. The topics explored in those cases include
religiosity, health, women's football, media and management. The
coverage of health-related issues is particularly important given
that several books on African football rarely broach such a topic.
With its unique approach to African football, this book will be of
interest to scholars and students of sports history, African
studies, politics in sports and African sports.
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