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Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation

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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. Bringing together the newest and most innovative scholarship on African sports, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Africa, African history, culture and society, and sports history and politics.

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ISBN: 9781138579330
Publication date: 4th April 2019
Author: Michael J. (Grambling State University, USA) Gennaro
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 252 pages
Genres: Sports
Sociology: sport and leisure
Politics and government