Gender, Sport and Development in Africa

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1 Gender, Sport and Development in Africa 1. Prelim Jimoh.pmd 1

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3 Gender, Sport and Development in Africa Cross-cultural Perspectives on Patterns of Representations and Marginalization Edited by Jimoh Shehu Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa 1. Prelim Jimoh.pmd 3

4 CODESRIA 2010 Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop, Angle Canal IV BP 3304 Dakar, 18524, Senegal Website: ISBN: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage or retrieval system without prior permission from CODESRIA. Typesetting: Daouda Thiam Cover Design: Ibrahima Fofana Printing: Imprimerie Saint-Paul, Dakar, Senegal Distributed in Africa by CODESRIA Distributed elsewhere by African Books Collective, Oxford, UK Website: The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is an independent organisation whose principal objectives are to facilitate research, promote researchbased publishing and create multiple forums geared towards the exchange of views and information among African researchers. All these are aimed at reducing the fragmentation of research in the continent through the creation of thematic research networks that cut across linguistic and regional boundaries. CODESRIA publishes Africa Development, the longest standing Africa based social science journal; Afrika Zamani, a journal of history; the African Sociological Review; the African Journal of International Affairs; Africa Review of Books and the Journal of Higher Education in Africa. The Council also co-publishes the Africa Media Review; Identity, Culture and Politics: An Afro- Asian Dialogue; The African Anthropologist and the Afro-Arab Selections for Social Sciences. The results of its research and other activities are also disseminated through its Working Paper Series, Green Book Series, Monograph Series, Book Series, Policy Briefs and the CODESRIA Bulletin. Select CODESRIA publications are also accessible online at CODESRIA would like to express its gratitude to the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA/SAREC), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), the Danish Agency for International Development (DANIDA), the French Ministry of Cooperation, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Rockefeller Foundation, FINIDA, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), TrustAfrica, UN/UNICEF, the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) and the Government of Senegal for supporting its research, training and publication programmes. 1. Prelim Jimoh.pmd 4 21/06/2010, 10:29

5 Contents Notes on Contributors... vii Introduction... ix Jimoh Shehu 1. The most Beautiful Game or the most Gender Violent Sport? Exploring the Interface between Soccer, Gender and Violence in Zimbabwe...1 Anusa Daimon 2. From Safety Zones to Public Spaces: Women s Participation in Sport in Zimbabwe Molly Manyonganise FIFA World Cup and the Patriarchy of Football Spectatorship in Malawi Jessie Kabwila Kapasula 4. Media, Sport and Male Dominance: Analysis of Sport Presentations in a Nigerian Newspaper Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi 5. Football, Empowerment and Gender Equality: An Exploration of Elite-Level Women s Football in South Africa Mari Haugaa Engh 6. Thiery Henry as Igwe: Soccer Fandom, Christening and Cultural Passage in Nollywood Senayon Olaoluwa and Adewole Adejayan 1. Prelim Jimoh.pmd 5

6 7. The Gendered Dimension of Competitive Sports in a Multicultural Context: The Mauritian Scenario Ramola Ramtohul 8. Challenging Gender Stereotypes: A Case Study of Three South African Soccer Players Sharon Groenmeyer 9. The Corporatization of Women s Football in South Africa: A Case Study of the Sasol Sponsorship and its Transformative Potential Lucy Mills 10. Football for Hope Centres in Africa: Intentions, Assumptions and Gendered Implications Jimoh Shehu 1. Prelim Jimoh.pmd 6

7 Notes on Contributors Anusa Daimon is a PhD candidate and lecturer in the Department of History, University of Zimbabwe. He teaches introductory courses in African History, and Gender Studies from the pre-colonial to the post-independence period. His research focuses on migration, citizenship and identity politics, autochthony, belonging and gender. His publications include, Migrant Chewa Identities and their Construction through Gule Wamkulu Dances in Zimbabwe, in Bahru Zewde (ed.), Society, State & Identity in African History, Addis Ababa, Forum for Social Studies, Molly Manyonganise is a lecturer in Religious Studies and Theology, Zimbabwe Open University. She was formerly a lecturer in Religious Studies at the Great Zimbabwe University. Her area of specialization is African Traditional Religion(s). Jessie Kabwila Kapasula has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Binghamton University, State University of New York. She is a lecturer at the University of Malawi, Chancellor College, Department of English. She has published with JENdA Journal and Feminist Africa. She focuses on contemporary African and Afro-Diaspora feminist theory. Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi has a PhD in African Art History/Visual Arts from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She currently teaches in the Department of Mass Communication, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria. Her areas of research intersect the fields of communication, history and cultural studies and her articles have appeared in various international journals, including Nordic Journal of African Studies, African Review and Jouranl of Communication and Language Arts. Senayon Olaoluwa teaches Post-colonial Literature at the Osun State University in Nigeria. His research interests, among others, are exile and cosmopolitanism, globalization, and gender concepts in African popular culture. Some of his publications include Where Do We Go from Here? Niger Delta, Crumbling Urbanscape and Migration in Tanure Ojaide s When It no Longer Matters Where You Live, in Nordic Journal of African Studies Vol. 18, 2, 2009; ; Between Magic and Logic: Globalization and the Challenge of Medical Collaboration in Ngugi s Wizard of the Crow, in Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, Vol. 7, 3-4, 2008; and From Simplicity to Performance: The Place of Second Generation Anglophone African Poets, in English Studies, Vol. 89, 4, Prelim Jimoh.pmd 7

8 viii Gender Sport and Development in Africa Adewole Adejayan is a postgraduate student at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His current research explores the intersections between religion and African politics. Lucy Caroline Mills holds a Master s degree in Development Studies from the University of Cape Town. She has done research on sport and development legacy potential of the FIFA 2010 World Cup. She now works for SCORE and Coaching for Hope as a Programme Facilitator, specializing in football and life skills. Mari Haugaa Engh did her Master s programme at the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town. Her thesis focused on issues of empowerment and surveillance in the lives of elite-level women footballers in South Africa. She has also undertaken several projects related to women s football in South Africa in the past five years. She is currently the Coordinator for Research and Development for SCORE in Cape Town. Sharon Groenmeyer is an independent consultant and external collaborator of the ILO and InWEnt in South Africa. She is a PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. She has published in the South African feminist journal AGENDA. Ramola Ramtohul is a lecturer in Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Mauritius. She holds a PhD in Gender Studies from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is currently working on a publication based on her doctoral research, which will be a socio-historical study of women s political mobilization in Mauritius. She has also published in the South African feminist journal, AGENDA. Jimoh Shehu is a senior lecturer in the Department of Physical Education, Health & Recreation at the University of Botswana, where he teaches pedagogy and sociology of sport. He has been departmental head since He has previously taught at the University of Benin (Nigeria), Kenyatta University (Kenya) and the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). In 1996, he was Deputy Director of Operations at the Centre for Advanced Social Science, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. His research interests include discursive construction of physical education and sport pedagogy, sport and development policy analysis; and hierarchies, spatiality, subjectivities and inequalities in physical activity. His recent publications have appeared in Sport Education & Society, Educational Studies, Teacher Development, and South African Journal of Research in Sport, Physical Education & Recreation. 1. Prelim Jimoh.pmd 8