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GLOBAL CULTURE AND SPORT SERIES
Series Editors
Stephen Wagg
Carnegie School Of Sport
Leeds Beckett University
Leeds, UK
David Andrews
School of Public Health
University of Maryland
College Park, MD, USA
Series Editors: Stephen Wagg, Leeds Beckett University, UK, and David
Andrews, University of Maryland, USA.
The Global Culture and Sport series aims to contribute to and advance the
debate about sport and globalization by engaging with various aspects of
sport culture as a vehicle for critically excavating the tensions between the
global and the local, transformation and tradition and sameness and differ-
ence. With studies ranging from snowboarding bodies, the globalization
of rugby and the Olympics, to sport and migration, issues of racism and
gender, and sport in the Arab world, this series showcases the range of
exciting, pioneering research being developed in the field of sport
sociology.
Football (Soccer) in
Africa
Origins, Contributions, and Contradictions
Editor
Augustine E. Ayuk
Clayton State University
Morrow, GA, USA
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Acknowledgments
v
vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
vii
viii Contents
14 Conclusion299
Augustine E. Ayuk
Index305
Notes on Contributors
ix
x NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, Vol. 5, Number 1, February 2011, 21–33, (5)
“Play Until the Whistle Blows: Sportsmanship as the Outcome of
Thirdness,” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 35 (2008): 73–89, (6) “On
Habit and Consciousness: A Peircean Critique of William James’s
Conception of Habit,” Streams of William James, Vol. 6, Issue 3, Fall
2004, 25–29, (7) “Charles S. Peirce on the Foundations of Philosophy
and Culture,” International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2002,
143–173, and (8) “The Fallacy of Universalism: The Nature and Status of
African Philosophy Revisited,” International Studies in Philosophy, Vol.
33, No. 1, 2001, 83–104.
Chuka Onwumechili is Professor of Strategic, Legal, and Management
Communication (SLMC) at Howard University in Washington, DC
(USA). He edits the Howard Journal of Communications and is member
of the executive board of ex-Enugu Rangers FC Players
Association, USA. Onwumechili is author or co-editor of over ten books,
book chapters, and several peer-reviewed academic journal articles. He
hosts a blog on Nigerian football and owns a database on the Nigerian
national team. His most recent book (with Gerard Akindes) is Identity
and Nation in African Football: Fans, Community, and Clubs and a recent
journal article (with Koren Bedeau) is ‘Analysis of FIFA’s Attempt at
Image Repair’ in the Communication and Sport journal. He has sports
articles published in Soccer and Society, Critical African Studies,
International Journal of Sport Communication, and International Journal
of the History of Sport. Chuka has also written sports articles for The
Conversation, an online publication integrating academic research with
journalistic writing. He also helps former international play-
ers write their memoirs. A recent memoir is by Nigeria’s former interna-
tional Francis Moniedafe titled Moniedafe: My Life and Gloray Years
of Bendel Insurance FC. Onwumechili is married to Adora and has three
children.
Njororai Wycliffe W. Simiyu is Professor of Kinesiology at The
University of Texas at Tyler, Texas, USA. He holds a PhD in Physical
Education and Sport from Kenyatta University, Kenya and has a research
focus on race and sport, international soccer, track and field, sport labor
migration, physical activity and health, performance sport, sociology of
sport, pedagogy, and leadership in Kinesiology.
He has taught at universities in Kenya (Egerton and Kenyatta
University), Uganda (Kyambogo), and USA (Wiley and University of
xiv NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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xvi ABBREVIATIONS
xvii
List of Tables
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CHAPTER 1
Augustine E. Ayuk
Introduction
Football (soccer) is the most popular sport in the world, a game that
arouses the type of hot-tempered passions not experienced in other sports.
Like other sporting activities in Africa, football, however, strives for status,
the assertion of identity, the maintenance of power in one form or another,
and the indoctrination of youth into the culture of their elders.1 Giulianotti2
maintains that football “is one of the great cultural institutions, like educa-
tion and the mass media, which shapes and cements national identities
1
Baker, William J. and James A. Mangan, eds., Sport in Africa: Essays in Social History,
New York: Africana, 1987.
2
Richard Giulianotti, Football: A Sociology of the Global Game, Cambridge, UK: Polity
Press, 1999.
A. E. Ayuk (*)
Clayton State University, Morrow, GA, USA
e-mail: Augustineayuk@clayton.edu