{"product_id":"football-soccer-in-africa-origins-contributions-and-contradictions-9783030948658","title":"Football (Soccer) in Africa: Origins, Contributions, and Contradictions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume provides an analysis of the history, origins, and development of football in Africa. It brings together an edited assemblage of essays that describe and analyse football in nine African countries, including Cameroon, DRC, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda, from a social science perspective. The selection of these countries highlights the three major foreign languages and powers that have governed the continent; The English, the French, and Arabic, and provides a prism through which to analyze and compare how football developed in the various countries throughout Africa.\u003c\/p\u003eThis comparative methodology allow readers to identify similarities and differences in the progression of the game on the continent, and by focusing on football, an important relic of European colonialism in Africa, underscores the continued dependence on, and domination of Europeans on the Africans. In situating the genesis of the game, contributors examine and analyze the history, development, management, and mismanagement by bureaucrats at the political level as well as at various football federations throughout the continent.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\tAugustine E. Ayuk\tFootball (Soccer) in Africa: Origins, Contributions, and Contradictions.\t        1\tNjororai Wycliffe W.S \tFIFA and Football Development in Africa\t       2\tPeter A. Ngwafu\tThe Confederation of African Football (CAF): Managing One of Africa’s Most Vital Intergovernmental Organization.\t      3\tAugustine E. Ayuk\tFootball in Cameroon, Best of Times, Worst of Times: Exploring the Paradox of Africa’s Venerable Football Nation.\t      4\t Chukwuka (Chuka) Onwumechi \tHistoricizing Football in Nigeria: Disciplinary, Governmentality, and Resistance within Football Labor’s Struggle.\t      5\t   Tamba Nlandu \tFootball in DR Congo: A Critical Account of “Congolese Football.”\t      6\t   Hala Thabet \t  Egyptian Football and Politics\t      7\t   Dankwa B. Kwame \tThe History and Development of Football in Ghana\t      8\t   Wanjala S. Nasong’o \tThe Politics of Soccer Management in Kenya:The Rise and Decline of a Popular Sport.\t      9\t    Tamba M’bayo\tSoccer and Laamb (Senegalese Wrestling): Competing Sports, National Pride, Spectatorship, and Wealth in Senegal\t     10\t   David Bogopa \tContradictions within the South African Football Association and the Premier Soccer League\t     11\tNjororai Wycliffe W.S. \tThe Origins, Status, Contributions, and Contradictions of Association football in Uganda\t     12\t   Alain Lawo-Sukam \t     Vicious Cycle: Cameroon(ization) and\/or Foreign(ization) of the Indomitable Lions’ Head Coaching.\t     13\tAugustine E. Ayuk\t     Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516327584087,"sku":"9783030948658","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/football-soccer-in-africa-origins-contributions-and-contradictions-9783030948658","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}