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Jamais une grève de football (never a soccer strike): A Reflection on Soccer at a Senegalese University
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Ufahamu : Journal of the African Activist Association
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January 1, 2007
- Author:
- Nesper, Emma
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Abstract
This reflective piece considers the symbolic place of soccer within the institutional framework of I'Universite Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis in Senegal. Considering sport as an arena for discourse, I explore notions of identity and national imagination as they are played out on the soccer fields of this university. In particular, I suggest that soccer serves an alternative venue for productive discussion when the university, in its official capacity, fails to provide such space.
The university is a space for the intellectual elite of Senegal in particular and West Africa in general to participate in the constant negotiation of power, influence, and change. Explicit and implicit ...