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African Soccerscapes - How a Continent Changed the World's Game (Paperback)
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African Soccerscapes - How a Continent Changed the World's Game (Paperback)
Series: Africa in World History
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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 expressed a commitment to racial equality and
self-determination. New nations staged matches as part of their
independence cele-brations and joined the world body, FIFA. The
Confederation africaine de football democratized the global game
through antiapartheid sanctions and increased the number of African
teams in the World Cup finals.
In this compact, highly readable book Alegi shows that the result
of this success has been the departure of huge numbers of players
to overseas clubs and the growing influence of private commercial
interests on the African game. But the growth of women's soccer and
South Africa's hosting of the 2010 World Cup also challenge the
one-dimensional notion of Africa as a backward, "tribal" continent
populated by victims of war, corruption, famine, and disease.
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