Sports in Africa, Past and Present

Authors

Todd Cleveland
Tarminder Kaur
Gerard Akindes

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Description

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.

Award: North American Society for Sport History Book Prize

Copyright Statement

Sports in Africa, Past and Present © 2020 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Language

eng

ISBN

9780821446966

Publication Date

10-2020

Publisher

Ohio University Press

City

Athens

Keywords

Africa, History, Sports, Social History of Sports

Disciplines

African History | African Studies | Sociology of Culture | Sports Studies

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Cleveland, Todd; Kaur, Tarminder; and Akindes, Gerard, "Sports in Africa, Past and Present" (2020). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 42.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/42