Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation

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Michael J. Gennaro (Grambling State University, USA) Saheed Aderinto (Western Carolina University, USA)

Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation

Michael J. Gennaro (Grambling State University, USA), Saheed Aderinto (Western Carolina University, USA)

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Routledge
04 April 2019

Sociology: sport & leisure; Politics & government; Sports & outdoor recreation

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.

Edited by: Michael J. Gennaro (Grambling State University USA), Saheed Aderinto (Western Carolina University, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 385g
ISBN: 9781138579330
ISBN 10: 1138579335
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 04 April 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael J. Gennaro is Assistant Professor of History at Bossier Parish Community College, USA. Saheed Aderinto is Associate Professor of History at Western Carolina University, USA.