Sport in the African World

Opening with the claim that Africans and people of African descent have had more of an impact on sport than perhaps on any other sphere if global culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, John Nauright and Mahfoud Amaras collection of sporting essays marks a welcome new direction in the study of African Sport.Conor Heffernan, University College Dublin

John Nauright is Professor and Chair of the Department of Kinesiology, Health Promotion and Recreation at the University of North Texas, USA. Until May 2016 he was Professor of Sport and Leisure Management at the University of Brighton, UK. He is the author and editor of many books including the award-winning Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity, the Routledge Companion to Sports History and Sport around the World: History, Culture and Practice Mahfoud Amara is currently the Director of Sport Science Program at the College of Arts and Sciences Qatar University, Assistant Professor in Sport Management and Policy. He has a number of publications on the topic of sport, business, politics and society in the Arab region. His other research interests is sport and social inclusion and cultural diversity. In 2012 he published a book with Palgrave Macmillan on Sport Politics and Society in the Arab World. He is co-editor with Alberto Testa of Sport in Islam and in Muslim Communities (Routledge, 2015).

Introduction [Mahfoud Amara and John Nauright] 1. African Sports Personalities and the African Diaspora in Europe [Claude Boli] 2. Football and Politics in Morocco [Moncef Lyazghi and Abderrahim Rharib] 3. The Transforming Sport TV Broadcasting Landscape in Africa: Localization and Transnational Broadcasting [Gerard Akindes] 4. Africa and the Struggle Against Apartheid Sport [Marc Keech] 5. Africa, Migration and Football [N. Van Der Meij and P. Darby] 6. Sport and International Relations in North Africa [Bouandel Youcef and Mahfoud Amara] 7. Traditional Sports and Games in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa [Cora Burnett] 8. The African Diaspora and Sport in the United States [Derek Charles Catsam] 9. The Imagined Zulu and Ethnobranding in South African Sport [John Nauright and Benedict Carton] 10. Africa and Sports Tourism [Tembi Tichaawa, Urmilla Bob and Kamilla Swart] 11. Women and Race in African and African Diaspora Sport [Sasha Sutherland and John Nauright] Conclusion [Mahfoud Amara and John Nauright]