Livre - Identity and nation in African football
796 ONW
Description
Livre
Palgrave Macmillan
Onwumechili Chuka 1960 - ...
Akindes Gérard
Presentation materielle : 1 vol. (xii, 272 p.)
Dimensions : 23 cm
The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage and its footballers are increasingly present at the best clubs in the world, yet it is rare to find compelling scholarship on the subject of African football. This book brings some of the top scholars on African football together to produce a collection that covers the diverse regions of the continent and diverse football topics. Focussing on aspects of identity, it spans issues of race, radicalization and self-identification, exploring the imagined continuation of war in support of a Nigerian club, the use of songs in support of a club and an ethnic community, and the effects of transnational broadcasting on supporter identification with football in Africa. This collection provides a valuable contribution to debates about African sport and identity and also contains an interview with one of Africa’s first migrant footballers, Paul Bonga Bonga. Chukwuka Onwumechili is Professor and Chair of the Strategic, Legal, and Management Communication Department at Howard University, USA. Gerard Akindes is Assistant Professor of Sports Administration in the Department of Sports Administration at Ohio University, USA.
LIST OF TABLES, vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, viii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS, ix ONWUMECHILI Chuka and AKINDES Gerard, Africa, Fandom, and Shifting Identities: An Introduction to Football and Identity, p. 1 PART I: HISTORY END RECORDING IDENTITIES JANZEN Phillip, Blurring Touchlines of Empire: The Diasporic Identities of Arthur Wharton and Walter Tull, p. 19 ZIYATI Ali and AKINDES Gerard, It’s All About the Beautiful Game of Football, or Is It? On Television and Football in North Africa, p. 36 DORSEY James M., Rooted in History: Politics, Identity, and Ultras in North African Soccer, p. 50 NJORORAI Wycliffe, The History and Identity of East African Football within the African Context, p. 67 PART II: ETHNICITY/RACE, CLUB, AND IDENTITY WALIAULA Solomon and OKONG'O Joseph Basil, Performing Luo Identity in Kenya: Songs of Gor Mahia, p. 83 RASPAUD Michel and LACHEB Monia, A Centennial Rivalry, Ahly vs Zamalek: Identity and Society in Modern Egypt, p. 99 ONWUMECHILI Chuka, Nigeria: Rangers, Igbo Identity, and the Imagination of War, p. 116 FLETCHER Marc, Reinforcing Divisions and Blurring Boundaries in Johannesburg Football Fandom, p. 133 PART III: NATION, FOOTBALL, AND IDENTITY NKWI Walter Gam, Shifting Identity and Cameroon’s National Football Squad: Indomitable Lions to Tamed Lambs, p. 155 TRANFAGLIA Anna, Fields of Dreams and Champions: A Case Study in Kenyan Girls’ Football, p. 165 ONWUMECHILI Chuka, Oh Lord, You Are the Lord who Remembered John Obi Mikel, p. 183 PART IV: IDENTITY FROM OUTSIDE ONWUMECHILI Chuka, CAF: Perennial Struggle in Crises of Identity, p. 201 AKINDES Gerard, From Stadium to Bars: Transnational Media and African Fan Identity, p. 214 CHIWESHE Manase Kudzai, Online Football Fan Identities and Cyber-fandoms in Zimbabwe, p. 236 AKINDES Gerard and ALEGI Peter, From Leopoldville to Liège: A Conversation with Paul Bonga Bonga, p. 254 INDEX, p. 269
