This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regi

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

Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space focuses on a remarkable month in the modern history of Africa and in th

The Politics of South African Football is the story of people whose vehement resistance and declaration that there could be no normal sport in an abnormal socie

Firmly situating South African teams, players, and associations in the international framework in which they have to compete, this title presents an interdiscip