This volume provides an analysis of the history, origins, and development of football in Africa. It brings together an edited assemblage of essays that describe and analyse football in nine African countries, including Cameroon, DRC, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda, from a social science perspective. The selection of these countries highlights the three major foreign languages and powers that have governed the continent; The English, the French, and Arabic, and provides a prism through which to analyze and compare how football developed in the various countries throughout Africa.
This comparative methodology allow readers to identify similarities and differences in the progression of the game on the continent, and by focusing on football, an important relic of European colonialism in Africa, underscores the continued dependence on, and domination of Europeans on the Africans. In situating the genesis of the game, contributors examine and analyze the history, development, management, and mismanagement by bureaucrats at the political level as well as at various football federations throughout the continent.
Edited by:
Augustine E. Ayuk Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Country of Publication: Switzerland Edition: 1st ed. 2022 Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 148mm,
Weight: 565g ISBN:9783030948658 ISBN 10: 303094865X Series:Global Culture and Sport Series Pages: 314 Publication Date:27 April 2022 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Augustine E. Ayuk is Professor of Political Science at Clayton State University.
