Sports in Africa, Past and Present (Paperback)

These groundbreaking essays demonstrate how Africans past and present have utilized sports to forge complex identities and shape Africa's dynamic place in the world. Since the late nineteenth century, modern sports in Africa have both reflected and shaped cultural, social, political, economic, generational, and gender relations on the continent. Although colonial powers originally introduced European sports as a means of "civilizing" indigenous populations and upholding then current notions of racial hierarchies and "muscular Christianity," Africans quickly appropriated these sporting practices to fulfill their own varied interests. This collection encompasses a wide range of topics, including women footballers in Nigeria, Kenya's world-class long-distance runners, pitches and stadiums in communities large and small, fandom and pay-to-watch kiosks, the sporting diaspora, sports pedagogy, sports as resistance and as a means to forge identity, sports heritage, the impact of politics on sports, and sporting biography.

General

Imprint:	Ohio University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2021
First published:	2020
Editors:	Todd Cleveland • Tarminder Kaur • Gerard Akindes
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8214-2451-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > African history > General
LSN:	0-8214-2451-3
Barcode:	9780821424513

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