This path-breaking collection of essays provides an introduction to a variety of dimensions of womenโs participation in African sports. Several key concepts are addressed in the book: women and media, women and sport-migration, sport and empowerment, sporting and social development, womenโs sport and postcolonial Africa, and professional sport and economic development. This collection, authored by established scholars, will attract readership from students from Sports Studies to African Studies and from undergraduate students to university teachers.
This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Michelle Sikes is a DPhil Candidate in Economic and Social History at Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
John Bale is Emeritus Professor John Bale, Department of Education, Keele University, Keele, UK.