Football and Colonialism: Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique
Nuno Domingos, "Football and Colonialism: Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique "
English | ISBN: 0821422618 | 2017 | 342 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 0821422618 | 2017 | 342 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist José Craveirinha described the ways in which the Mozambican football players in the suburbs of Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) adapted the European sport to their own expressive ends. Through gesture, footwork, and patois, they used what Craveirinha termed “malice”—or cunning—to negotiate their places in the colonial state. “These manifestations demand a vast study,” Craveirinha wrote, “which would lead to a greater knowledge of the black man, of his problems, of his clashes with European civilization, in short, to a thorough treatise of useful and instructive ethnography.”
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