Sports In African History Politics And Identity Formation

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Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation

Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9780429668555
ISBN-13 : 0429668554
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Book Synopsis Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation by : Michael J. Gennaro

Download or read book Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation written by Michael J. Gennaro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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