With 54 official countries, Africa is heterogeneous, wide, huge and with diverse cultures. One common thing however has begun to gradually eat up its people from different countries. From the four corners of the continent, ie, from Morocco to South Africa and from Cape Verde to Somalia one is likely to hear these same phrases appearing and spoken in different languages. Adorned in all sorts of bright colors and sometimes with hats and handkerchiefs to match, the heterogeneous African shouts with so much of elitist pride; Hey Jack, my team is Chelsea, the Blues, Mine is Man U, we are the Red Devils I am for Arsenal and we blaze our guns, hey I am Liverpool and we never walk alone, we are the best etc. Well, this is very interesting. But if you cared to know and I know you do since you are still reading this despite the fact that you wish to aim at me with your grandmothers pistol for saying this, according to McPhails (2006) Electronic Colonialism Theory, most African based fans of European football teams are what I would call Virtual Imperial Subjects or Self tagged electronic colonial subjects of European football...Easy man, easy woman, easy man. take it easyy....Orderrrr in your mind now!OK, if you wish to know more about this join me as I present on the Colonialism of Sports in Africa; the case of Ghana at the Sports in Africa Conference this Friday at 1pm.bring your stones to cast at me, you European soccer loving African uninterested in local African leagues fan...see you on Friday. thank you :)
Posted on: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 01:46:59 +0000
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