Steve Bloomfield

Africa United (eBook, ePUB)

How Football Explains Africa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A superb, modern-day portrait of Africa, told through the game that unites it.

Football inspires competition and inflames passions nowhere as strongly as in Africa. Travelling across thirteen
countries, from Cairo to the Cape, Steve Bloomfield meets players and fans, politicians and rebel leaders, and
discovers the role that football has played in shaping the continent. He recounts how football has helped to prop up
an authoritarian regime in Egypt, end a conflict in Côte d'Ivoire and provide a tiny ray of light in war-torn Somalia.

Meanwhile, the influence of African football continues to spread rapidly through Europe. Today, no Premiership
team is complete without a major African star - Drogba, Essien, Touré, Adebayor and Kanu. Countless African players are now enriching English football and becoming household names.

Steve Bloomfield's wide-ranging and incisive book investigates Africa's love of football, its increasing global influence, the build-up to the 2010 World Cup and the social and political backdrop to the greatest show on earth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847679079
• Artikelnr.: 38444650

Autorenporträt

Steve Bloomfield was based in Nairobi, Kenya from 2006 to 2010. A former Africa correspondent for The Independent, he reported from more than 25 countries across the continent. He is now the foreign editor for Monocle and lives in London.