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Africa's Elite Football: Structure, Politics, and Everyday Challenges

Africa's Elite Football: Structure, Politics, and Everyday Challenges

Onwumechili, Chuka

Paperback

Series: Routledge Contemporary Africa

FootballSoccerGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032239654
ISBN13: 9781032239651
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 13 2021
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores various aspects of intranational elite football in Africa, drawing on the expertise of notable scholars from across the world.

Africa's Elite Football focuses on an area largely ignored by current scholarship on African football, where interest has focused on international migration. In exploring the intranational, the book is written in two parts. The first is a general focus on the continent, and the second is an examination of country cases. The general focus of the book is on the nature of elite tier leagues, the relationship between politics and football, the media, youth academies, intranational migration and fans. Notably, chapters on topics such as intranational migration present groundbreaking scholarship in this area. Currently, football discourses on migration focus on international migration of footballers, yet the majority of migration in African football is intranational. Thus, by addressing the intranational, this book brings attention to an area that is underrepresented in the current academic discourse. The second part of the book, which focuses on country cases, covers Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The topics explored in those cases include religiosity, health, women's football, media and management. The coverage of health-related issues is particularly important given that several books on African football rarely broach such a topic.

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