Identity and Nation in African Football: Fans, Community, and Clubs by Onwumechili, C.

Identity and Nation in African Football: Fans, Community, and Clubs (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137355805)

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Identity and Nation in African Football: Fans, Community, and Clubs by Onwumechili, C.

Identity and Nation in African Football: Fans, Community, and Clubs

$54.99
Identity and Nation in African Football: Fans, Community, and Clubs by Onwumechili, C.

Identity and Nation in African Football: Fans, Community, and Clubs

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: C. Onwumechili
ISBN-10: 1137355808
ISBN-13: 9781137355805
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2014
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.80w x 0.94d
By C. Onwumechili
By C. Onwumechili
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Peter Alegi, Michigan State University, USA Manase Kudzai Chiweshe, Rhodes University, South Africa James M. Dorsey, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Marc Fletcher, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Phillip Janzen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Monia Lachheb, Higher Institute of Sport and Physical Education, Tunisia Wycliffe Njororai, University of Texas, USA Walter Gam Nkwi, University of Buea, Cameroon Joseph Basil Okong'o, Moi University, Kenya Michel Raspaud, Joseph Fourier University, France Anna Tranfaglia, University of Pittsburgh, USA Solomon Waliaula, Maasai Mara University, Kenya Ali Ziyati, West Virginia State University, USA

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