Global Perspectives on Football in Africa : Visualising the Game (Paperback)

1. Visualizing the game: global perspectives on football in Africa  2. Representation in the first African World Cup: ‘world-class’, Pan-Africanism, and exclusion  3. Visualising modernity: development hopes and the 2010 FIFAWorld Cup  4. ‘Fields of Play’: the District Six Museum and the history of football in Cape Town  5. The African footballer as visual object and figure of success: Didier Drogba and social meaning  6. Football imagery and colonial legacy: Zaire’s disastrous campaign during the 1974 World Cup  7. Envisioning and visualizing English football in East Africa: the case of a Kenyan radio football commentator  8. Visualizing politics in African sport: political and cultural constructions in Zimbabwean soccer  9. Black chicken, white chicken: patriotism, morality and the aesthetics of fandom in the 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana  10. Visualizing African football in apartheid Namibia: photography, posters and constructions of consumers and nationalism  11. Visualizing the game: the iconography of football on African postage stamps  12. Football and the representation of history: the Senegalese 2002 ‘success story’ in football cartoons and advertisements