The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage. This volume brings together top scholars on African football to explore a range of issues such as gender, identity, nationalism, history, cyber-fandom, the media and fan radicalization.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Africa, Fandom and Shifting Identities: An Introduction to Football and Identity; Chuka Onwumechili and Gerard Akindes 1. Blurring Touchlines of Empire: Diasporic Identities of Arthur Wharton and Walter Tull; Phillip Janzen 2. It's All About the Beautiful Game of Football, or is it? On Television and Football in North Africa; Ali Ziyati and Gerard Akindes 3. Rooted in History: Politics, Identity and Ultras in North African Soccer; James M. Dorsey 4. History and Identity of East African Football within the African Context; Wycliffe Njororai 5. Performing Luo Identity in Kenya: Songs of Gor Mahia; Solomon Waliaula and Joseph Basil Okong'o 6. A Centennial Rivalry, Ahly v Zamalek: Identity and Society in Modern Egypt; Michel Raspaud and Monia Lachheb 7. Nigeria: Rangers, Igbo Identity and the Imagination of War; Chuka Onwumechili 8. Reinforcing Divisions and Blurring Boundaries in Johannesburg Football Fandom; Marc Fletcher 9. Shifting Identity towards Cameroon's National Football Squad: From Indomitable Lions to Tamed Lambs; Walter Gam Nkwi 10. Field of Dreams: Case Study in Kenyan Girls' Football; Anna Tranfaglia 11. Oh Lord, You are the Lord who Remembered John Obi Mikel; Chuka Onwumechili 12. CAF: Perennial Struggle in Crises of Identity; Chuka Onwumechili 13. From Stadium to Bars: Transnational Media and African Fan Identity; Gerard Akindes 14. Online Football Fan Identities and Cyber-fandoms in Zimbabwe; Manase Kudzai Chiweshe 15. From Leopoldville to Liege: A Conversation with Paul Bonga Bonga; Gerard Akindes and Peter Alegi
