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• W285765903 abstract "Laduma!: Soccer, Politics, and Society in South Africa. By Peter Alegi. Pietermaritzburg, So. Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2004. Pp. vii, 221. $29.95 paper. The study of sport is often overlooked, at least in the United States, as an important and valuable area of academic inquiry. Peter Alegi's book Laduma! is a wonderful example of why this perspective is short-sighted. Through a meticulously researched and well-crafted narrative of the history of men's football in South Africa- from the formation of the nation the Soweto uprising of 1976- Alegi demonstrates that sport is an important site for reflecting and reconstructing social relations in the larger society. Specifically, the author examines the relationship between football and the broader struggle for space and time in colonial and apartheid South Africa. For the title, Alegi borrows the Zulu expression laduma meaning to thunder or to be famous, which is used by television commentators when a goal is scored. Alegi uses archival research, interviews, newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and other documents investigate African sporting traditions of the precolonial era, the development of football in colonial South Africa, case studies of football in Durban and the Witwatersrand, the Africanization of football through rituals and distinct playing styles, the entrepreneurial spirit surrounding football in South Africa, and the role of football in the anti-apartheid movement and nation building process. Alegi's work follows in the tradition of scholars who grapple with how the everyday struggles in sport are important the contestation and negotiation of capitalist, colonial, and gendered structures. The book is organized thematically and chronologically. After a thorough introduction (that gives an overview of the literatures on sport and leisure, Africanization of soccer, and gender and masculinity), Alegi presents a discussion of indigenous athletic traditions in southern Africa including stick fighting and competitive dancing. The author argues that precolonial athletic traditions provided a solid foundation upon which colonial sports, such as football, developed in southern Africa. The next chapter documents the importation of British soccer during the late nineteenth century, and the decline in soccer's popularity among white men and its simultaneous rise among Black men in South Africa during the early twentieth century. The third chapter charts the development of organized football among the Black male working-class of Durban between 1910 and 1939. Alegi shows that the first organizers of African football were relatively privileged individuals, and that missionaries played important roles in institutionalizing football in urbanizing Durban. The chapter also shows how access and the control of sporting space were critical foci of power struggles between Africans and local white authorities, and had the effect of stimulating African political consciousness. In the following chapter, the author presents a history of football in the Johannesburg/Witwatersrand area, which was first organized around the gold mines after the First World War. White mine managers supported formalized football competitions because they thought it helped control militant and rowdy behavior among mine workers. Local governmental authorities also supported the development of organized football as a way deter crime and drunkenness. …" @default.
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