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Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation

Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation

Gennaro, Michael J.
Aderinto, Saheed

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FictionGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138579335
ISBN13: 9781138579330
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 4 2019
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation explores how sports can render a key to unlocking complex social, political, economic, and gendered relations across Africa and the Diaspora.

Sports hold significant value and have an intricate relationship with many components of African societies throughout history. For many Africans, sports are a way of life, a site of cultural heroes, a way out of poverty and social mobility, and a site for leisurely play. This book focuses on the many ways in which sports uniquely reflect changing cultural trends at diverse levels of African societies. The contributors detail various sports, such as football, cricket, ping pong, and rugby, across the continent to show how sports lay at the heart of the discourse of nationalism, self-fashioning, gender and masculinity, leisure and play, challenges of underdevelopment, and ideas of progress.

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