In honour of the thrilling footballing spectacle that is the Africa Cup of Nations, I’ve written an article about football in colonial Africa. It’s published on the excellent and intelligent Pitch Invasion site. The article draws quite heavily on the work of Peter Alegi on South Africa and Phyllis Martin on Congo Brazzaville, but also incorporates some research I’ve done on the Gold Coast and the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt.
I’ll post a pdf with full scholarly references as soon as I’ve figured out how Adobe InDesign works.