Sport has been a component of African cultural life for several hundred years. In today’s globalized world, Africans and Africa have become a vital part of the international ...

The meanings attached to sports in South African societies, past and present, are explored in this book, which focuses particularly on the part played by the prominent team ...

This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries ...

Provides students and scholars with a selection of research and conceptual thinking in the field of sport management.

Conventional historical and political analyses of South Africa have frequently neglected the vital role of sport in general, and rugby in particular. This book fills the gap ...