Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation

Part 1: Region-Based Essays 1. "I Was Really Disgusted at Seeing Healthy Young Boys Playing Ping Pong": Ping-Pong and Masculinity in Post-World War II Nigeria 2. Pas de Deux as I Tell You: Physical Education, Dance, and the Remaking of Discipline in World War II Brazzaville 3. Cameroonian Cricket: The Interface between Local and Dominant Colonial Ideologies 4. Political Action in Sports Development Under the National Liberation Council (NLC) Era in Ghana 5. "The Best of the Best": The Politicization of Sports under Ghana's Supreme Military Council 6. "We Have Material Second to None": Colored Sportsmen and Masculine Competition in the South African Press, 1936-1960 7. Playing Away from Home: The Nature of Soccer Integration in South Africa, 1978-1984 8. Examining Physical Culture in a Local Context 9. "Visionary Courtyard Players": The Robben Island Rugby Board and the Transition to Post-Apartheid South Africa, c. 1972-1992 10. The Birth of the Springboks: How Early International Rugby Matches Unified White Cultural Identity in South Africa 11. A Tale of Two Sports Fields: Contested Spaces, Histories, and Identities at Play in Rural South Africa 12. The Bulldog, the Pharaoh, and Football: British Imperialism and Egypt's National Sport and Identity, 1882-1934 13. Sports and Physical Education in Ethiopia during the Italian Occupation, 1936-1941 Part 2: Theme Based Essays 14. Commercialization of Football in Africa: Prospects, Challenges, and Experiences 15. Islam and the Foreign Other: Representing the Alterity of Hakeem Olajuwon 16. Afro-Orientalism in the Global Village: Media Imaginations of South Africa and Africa in the Coverage of the 2010 World Cup