Football in Africa : conflict, conciliation, and community /
"This collection of articles seeks to answer many questions regarding the role of football in Africa. The authors draw heavily on detailed fieldwork in African communities to examine football cultures across all regions of this complex continent. Nigeria, South Africa, Liberia, Kenya, Cameroon...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Drama, fields and metaphors: an introduction to football in Africa / Richard Giulianotti and Gary Armstrong
- containment and counter-attack: a history of Eritrean football / Alex Last
- Football in Algeria: between violence and politics/ Youssef Fates
- A story of heroes, of epics: the rise of football in Nigeria / Wiebe Boer
- Between colonialsim, Independence and globalization: football in Zimbabwe / Richard Giulianotti
- Ngoma reverberations: Swahili music culture and the making of football aesthetics in early Twentieth-Century Zanzibar / Laura Fair
- Football and apartheid society: the South African Soccer League 1960-66/ Peter Alegi
- Football and ethnicity in Mauritius: (Re)Producing communal allegiances / Tim Edensor and Ibrahim Koodortuh
- Chasing the ghosts: narratives of football and nation in Morocco / Gareth Stanton
- France in the Cameroonian football imagination / Bea Vidacs
- Life, death, and the biscuit: football and the embodiment of society in Liberia, West Africa / Gary Armstrong
- Playing against deprivation: football and development in Nairobi, Kenya / Hans Hognestad and Arvid Tollisen
- Three geographies of African football migration: patterns, problems and postcoloniality / John Bale
- The migration of the Black Panther: an interview with Eusebio of Mozambique and Portugal / Gary Armstrong
- Extra time / Peter Woodward.