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A Story of Heroes and Epics: The History of Football in Nigeria
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The narrative behind what carried Nigeria and Nigerians to the present stage in world football is a fascinating one. This book tries to explain how it happened in its early formation as an example of the dispersion, adaptation and indigenisation of British sporting culture in an outpost of Empire.
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In Nigeria, the rhetoric surrounding football is focused on how important the game is to national unity- when the national team plays, Nigerians feel a rare unity of purpose. Where did all this enthusiasm for football in Nigeria come from? How did football become so popular that so much national attention and rhetoric would surround it?
This book attempts to address these questions alongside others: How did cultural practices like football introduced from abroad, become indigenised? What were the cultural and practical motivations for the British colonial rulers to introduce football and other leisure activities to Nigeria? Were there differences between the north and the south in the spread and scope of football?
Author: Wiebe Boer
160 pages
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