Africa, Football, and FIFA: Politics, Colonialism, and ResistanceThis book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body. Africa is no longer on the periphery of world football but the economic disparities between the first and the third worlds hinder the development of the game. The author shows convincingly how Africa's advance within world football is tied to its national political economy and how the balance of power within FIFA still clearly favours its European members. |
Contents
Football Diffusion and Colonial Doctrine in Africa | 8 |
Football Indigenous Resistance and African Independence | 23 |
FIFA Eurocentrism and the Distribution of Power | 43 |
Africa Third World Solidarity and the FIFA Presidency | 57 |
Havelange African Resistance and the Struggle | 85 |
UEFA FIFA and the Scramble for Africa | 108 |
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