African Soccerscapes: How a Continent Changed the World’s Game (Africa in World History)
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African Soccerscapes: How a Continent Changed the World’s Game (Africa in World History)
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A Choice Significant University Press Title for Undergraduates, 2010–11.
From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, Africans have wrested control of soccer from the hands of Europeans, and through the rise of different playing styles, the rituals of spectatorship, and the presence of magicians and healers, have turned soccer into a distinctively African activity.
In this compact, highly readable book Alegi shows that the result of this success has been the departure of huge numbers of players to overseas clubs and the growing influence of private commercial interests on the African game. But the growth of women’s soccer and South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 World Cup also challenge the one-dimensional notion of Africa as a backward, “tribal†continent populated by victims of war, corruption, famine, and disease.