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1 online resource |
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Routledge contemporary Africa series |
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Routledge contemporary Africa series.
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| Contents |
Part 1: General Issues in African Football 1. The Structure and Nature of Professional Elite Leagues in Africa Chuka Onwumechili 2. The State, Fans and Football PoliticsChuka Onwumechili, Totty O. Totty 3. Elite Local Leagues and Transnational Broadcast of European FootballUnwana Samuel Akpan 4. The Rise of Football AcademiesChuka Onwumechili and Jason Perry 5. Socioeconomic Analysis of African Footballers' Migration to Europe: Elements for Decision Making based on the West African CaseErnest Y. Acheampong, Malek Bouhaouala and Michel Raspaud 6. Intra-National Football Migrations and ImpactChuka Onwumechili and Unwana Samuel Akpan 7. Globalization of Football Match Fixing: Experiences from AfricaManase Kudzai Chiweshe 8. Culture of Magic and Sorcery in African FootballSimiyu Njororai 9. African Fandom: From Cape Town to CairoChuka Onwumechili Part 2: Country Cases 10. From Ethnic Community to a Popular Culture: The Case of Gor Mahia Football Fandom in KenyaSolomon Waliaula and Joseph Basil Okong'o 11. Egypt: Encountering an Infusion of Middle East CashChuka Onwumechili 12. Nigeria: Women Football League and Struggle for SurvivalChuka Onwumechili and Mark Beckford 13. What Model for Football Club Management in Africa? A Case Study of Two Football Teams in SenegalGerard Akindes 14. Mediatization of Zimbabwe's Professional Football League Management Style and Intellectual Property Rights in Crisis TimesLyton Ncube and Nhamo Anthony Mhiripiri 15. The Magical Economy of the Botswana Local Football LeagueJimoh Shehu 16. Religiosity in African Football: 'Magic' and Christianity in the Zambian Game in Colonial and Modern TimesHikabwa D. Chipande, Nelly Mwale and Joseph Chita 17. Nigeria: Health and Medical Issues in Elite FootballBabatunde Akinbinu, Ayomide Olabode, and Chukwuemeka Emmanuel Agi |
| Summary |
This book explores various aspects of intranational elite football in Africa, drawingon the expertise of notable scholars from across the world. Africa's Elite Football focuses on an area largely ignored by current scholarship on African football, where interest has focused on international migration. In exploring the intranational, the book is written in two parts. The first is a general focus on the continent, and the second is an examination of country cases. The general focus of the book is on the nature of elite tier leagues, the relationship between politics and football, the media, youth academies, intranational migration and fans. Notably, chapters on topics such as intranational migration present groundbreaking scholarship in this area. Currently, football discourses on migration focus on international migration of footballers, yet the majority of migration in African football is intranational. Thus, by addressing the intranational, this book brings attention to an area that is underrepresented in the current academic discourse. The second part of the book, which focuses on country cases, covers Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The topics explored in those cases include religiosity, health, women's football, media and management. The coverage of health-related issues is particularly important given that several books on African football rarely broach such a topic. With its unique approach to African football, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of sports history, African studies, politics in sports and African sports |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Chuka Onwumechili is Professor of Communications in the Strategic, Legal and Management Department at Howard University, Washington D.C., United States of America |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed December 3, 2019) |
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Soccer -- Africa
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Soccer -- Social aspects -- Africa
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Soccer players -- Africa
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Football.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Soccer.
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Soccer
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Soccer players
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Soccer -- Social aspects
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Onwumechili, Chuka, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780429029059 |
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0429029055 |
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9780429639609 |
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0429639600 |
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9780429636431 |
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0429636431 |
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9780429642777 |
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0429642776 |
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