African Soccerscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Soccerscapes write by Peter Alegi. This book was released on 2010-02-14. African Soccerscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 expressed a commitment to racial equality and self-determination. New nations staged matches as part of their independence celexadbrations and joined the world body, FIFA. The Confédération africaine de football democratized the global game through antiapartheid sanctions and increased the number of African teams in the World Cup finals. 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.
Laduma!
Laduma! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Laduma! write by Peter Alegi. This book was released on 2010. Laduma! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'The passionate and meticulous research in Laduma! ensures that a lost legacy is highlighted and that the roots of soccer in South Africa have now been properly recorded.'-Mark Gleeson --Book Jacket.
Why Africa is Poor
Why Africa is Poor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Africa is Poor write by Greg Mills. This book was released on 2012-10-01. Why Africa is Poor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Economic growth does not demand a secret formula. Good development examples now abound in East Asia and further afield in others parts of Asia, and in Central America. But why then has Africa failed to realise its potential in half a century of independence? Why Africa is Poor demonstrates that Africa is poor not because the world has denied the continent the market and financial means to compete: far from it. It has not been because of aid per se. Nor is African poverty solely a consequence of poor infrastructure or trade access, or because the necessary development and technical expertise is unavailable internationally. Why then has the continent lagged behind other developing areas when its people work hard and the continent is blessed with abundant natural resources? Stomping across the continent and the developing world in search of the answer, Greg Mills controversially shows that the main reason why Africa's people are poor is because their leaders have made this choice.
The Country of Football
The Country of Football - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Country of Football write by Paulo Fontes. This book was released on 2014. The Country of Football available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brazil has done much to shape football/soccer, but how has soccer shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book presents groundbreaking work by historians and researchers from Brazil, the United States, Britain and France, who examine the political significance, in the broadest sense, of the sport in which Brazil has long been a world leader. The authors consider questions such as the relationship between soccer, the workplace and working class culture; the formation of Brazilian national identity; race relations; political and social movements; and the impact of the sport on social mobility. Contributions to the book range in time from the late nineteenth century, when the British first introduced the sport to Brazil, to the present day, as the 'country of soccer' prepares itself to host the 2014 World Cup, painting a vivid picture of the many ways in which soccer exists and functions in Brazil, both on and off the pitch.
A History of Mozambique
A History of Mozambique - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Mozambique write by M. D. D. Newitt. This book was released on 1995-03-22. A History of Mozambique available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book summarizes five hundred years of the history of the societies that exist within the area that became Mozambique in 1891. It also takes the story up to the present, including the War of Liberation and Mozambique after independence. It is work of major scholarship that will appeal to experts and students alike.
