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Social studies.

• Tome 1. Rites, soins et jeux divers
• tome 2. Rite sunkunkun et foyer chrétien.

• "The white man's burden" : football and empire, 1860s/1919
• The Africanization of football, 1920s/1940s
• Making nations in late colonial Africa, 1940s/1964
• Nationhood, Pan-Africanism, and football after independence
• Football migration to Europe since the 1930s
• The privatization of football, 1980s to recent times
• South Africa 2010 : the World Cup comes to Africa.

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. African Soccerscapes explores how Africans adopted soccer for their own reasons and on their own terms. Soccer was a rare form of "national culture" in postcolonial Africa, where stadiums and clubhouses became arenas in which Africans challenged colonial power and express.

• 1. Football Diffusion and Colonial Doctrine in Africa
• 2. Football, Indigenous Resistance and African Independence
• 3. FIFA Eurocentrism and the Distribution of Power in World Football
• 4. Africa, Third World Solidarity and the FIFA Presidency
• 5. Havelange, African Resistance and the Struggle for Global Equity
• 6. UEFA, FIFA and the Scramble for Africa
• 7. Africa and the Campaign for the Summit of World Football
• 8. Theorising Africa's Place in FIFA's Global Order.

This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body. Africa is no longer on the periphery of world football but the economic disparities between the first and the third worlds hinder the development of the game. The author shows convincingly how Africa's advance within world football is tied to its national political economy and how the balance of power within FIFA still clearly favours its European members.
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• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction
• Beneath African traditional culture
• Children's traditional games as indigenous knowledge systems
• Study area and research problem
• Courtship/love games
• Games that increase creativity, accuracy and motor skills
• Games that teach endurance, determination and increase physical fitness
• Name games/games to remember names
• Games that teach vigilance, coordination and safety rules
• Games that teach hygiene and ethics of care
• Lullabies/soothing songs
• Counting games
• Swimming games
• Seasonal games
• Recreational and socialization games
• Hunting games.

This is a comprehensive study and erudite description of the struggle of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in an Age of Globalization, using in particular eighty-four children's traditional games in south-eastern Zimbabwe. The book is an informative and interesting anthropological account of rare African children's games at the risk of disappearing under globalization. The virtue of the book does not only lie in its modest philosophical questioning of those knowledge forms that consider themselves as superior to others, but in its laudable, healthy appreciation of the creative art forms of traditional literature that features in genres such as endangered children's traditional games. The book is a clarion call to Africans and the world beyond to come to the rescue of relegated and marginalized African creativity in the interest of future generations.

• The most Beautiful Game or the most Gender Violent Sport? Exploring the Interface between Soccer, Gender and Violence in Zimbabwe
• 2. From 'Safety' Zones to Public Spaces: Women's Participation in Sport in Zimbabwe
• 3. 2010 FIFA World Cup and the Patriarchy of Football Spectatorship in Malawi
• 4. Media, Sport and Male Dominance: Analysis of Sport Presentations in a Nigerian Newspaper
• 5. Football, Empowerment and Gender Equality: An Exploration of Elite-Level Women's Football in South Africa
• 6. Thiery Henry as Igwe: Soccer Fandom, Christening and Cultural Passage in Nollywood
• 7. The Gendered Dimension of Competitive Sports in a Multicultural Context: The Mauritian Scenario
• 8. Challenging Gender Stereotypes: A Case Study of Three South African Soccer Players
• 9. The Corporatization of Women's Football in South Africa: A Case Study of the Sasol Sponsorship and its Transformative Potential
• 10. Football for Hope Centres in Africa: Intentions, Assumptions and Gendered Implications.

To many young people, the term sport has an exhilarating ring; to many older persons, it signifies recreation and leisure. From colonial times, it has been viewed as a means of social control. Increasingly, it is being touted by governments and donor agencies as a self-evident tool of Africa's development. How accurate are these individual, romantic and moral notions of sport? In this volume, eleven African scholars offer insightful analyses of the complex ideological and structural dimensions of modern sport as a cultural institution.
Drawing on various theories and cross-cultural data, the contributors to this volume highlight the various ways in which sport norms, policies, practices and representations pervasively interface with gender and other socially constructed categories of difference. They argue that sport is not only a site of competition and physical recreation, but also a crossroad where features of modern society such as hegemony, identities, democracy, technology, development and master statuses intertwine and bifurcate. As they point out in many ways, sport production, reproduction, distribution and consumption are relational, spatial and contextual and, therefore, do not pay off for men, women and other social groups equally. The authors draw attention to the structure and scope of efforts needed to transform the exclusionary and gendered nature of sport processes to make them adequate to the task of engendering Africa's development.
Gender, Sport and Development in Africa is an immensely important contribution to current debates on the broader impacts of sport on society. It is an essential reading for students, policy-makers and others interested in perspectives that interrogate the grand narratives of sport as a neutral instrument of development in African countries. --Book Jacket.

• Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Foundations
• Introduction and Consumption of Soccer in Lusophone Africa
• ch. 2 Engaging with the Game
• African Practitioners in the Colonies
• ch. 3 Following the Ball, Realizing a Goal
• From the Colonies to the Metropole
• ch. 4 Successes, Setbacks, and Strategies
• Football and Life in the Metropole
• ch. 5 Calculated Conciliation
• Apoliticism in a Politically Charged Context.

With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal's African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975. The backdrop was Portugal's increasingly embattled Estado Novo regime, and its attendant use of the players as propaganda to communicate the supposed unity of the metropole and the colonies. Cleveland zeroes in on the ways that players, such as the great Eusebio, creatively exploited opportunities generated by shifts in the political and occupational landscapes in the waning decades of Portugal's empire. Drawing on interviews with the players themselves, he shows how they often assumed roles as social and cultural intermediaries and counters reductive histories that have depicted footballers as mere colonial pawns. To reconstruct these players' transnational histories, the narrative traces their lives from the informal soccer spaces in colonial Africa to the manicured pitches of Europe, while simultaneously focusing on their off-the-field challenges and successes. By examining this multi-continental space in a single analytical field, the book unearths structural and experiential consistencies and contrasts, and illuminates the components and processes of empire.
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