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Reimagining Sports: African Athletes, Defection, and Ambiguous Citizenship.

This paper interrogates citizenship in the context of the ease and fluidity with which talented African athletes from the global South are defecting to the North and the Gulf states and switching nationalities; in particular, how the pull of capital and globalization are impinging on traditional not...

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Published in:Africa Today Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 27 - 41
Main Author: Adjaye, Joseph K.
Format: Article
Published: Indiana University Press Winter 2010
Subjects:
Sports & society
African athletes
Athletes
Citizenship
Naturalization
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