Miracle or Debacle? Anti-Colonialism, Nationalism, and Pan-Africanism in Reports of the Friendly Football Match between Kenya and Ghana in 1965-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Miracle or Debacle? Anti-Colonialism, Nationalism, and Pan-Africanism in Reports of the Friendly Football Match between Kenya and Ghana in 1965

Published:2023-12-29 Issue:6 Volume:6 Page:41-50
ISSN:2277-842X
Container-title:Journal of Social Science Humanities and Literature
language:
Short-container-title:JSSHL

Author:

Li Tianyue

Abstract

This article examines the 1965 friendly football match between Kenya and Ghana within the broader context of Kenya's early post-colonial era. It conducts a textual analysis of pre-match reports to reveal how the Ghanaian national team was portrayed as a symbol of decolonialism. Additionally, the study investigates the role of journalism in transforming public frustration regarding the match's outcome into a critique of the government. Finally, it discusses how various interpretations of this match have contributed to the construction of collective memories, especially in the context of pan-Africanism. This research sheds light on the complex interplay between sports, political sentiments, and social dynamics in a newly independent Kenya.

Publisher

Century Science Publishing Co

Reference133 articles.

1. Gordon R., Grundlingh M, ""Going for the Reds: Max Gluckman and the Anthropology of Football"", in Schwell A., Szogs N., Kowalska M.Z., Buchowski M. (eds) New Ethnographies of Football in Europe. Football Research in an Enlarged Europe (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 21.

2. For instance, David Goldblatt attempts to reconstruct the history of modern world colonialism and globalization through a global history of football. Laurent Dubois focuses on the identity of two pivotal players in French football history, Zinedine Zidane and Lilian Thuram, and discusses the unique connection between colonialism, football politics, and the French context. Geoff Pearson discusses the male gaze and the stigmatization of female fans in football from a gender perspective. See David Goldblatt, The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football (London: Penguin UK, 2007); Laurent Dubois, Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (California: University of California Press, 2010); Geoff Pearson, An Ethnography of English Football Fans: Cans, Cops and Carnivals (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012).

3. Paul Darby, ""'Let us rally around the flag': Football, nation-building, and pan-Africanism in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana,"" The Journal of African History 54.2 (2013): 224.

4. Richard Giulianotti, Gary Armstrong, ""Entering the Field,"" New perspectives on World Football (1997): 138.

5. Paul Darby, ""Out of Africa: The Exodus of Elite African Football Talent to Europe,"" In Sport and Migration (LONDON: Routledge, 2011): 263-276.