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Editor’s Notes Welcome to Volume 6 of IMPUMELELO.  Producing an issue of a journal requires a period of gestation, one longer than nearly everyone involved would desire.  Although this issue is coming out about six months after Volume 5, it is still an arduous and time consuming process to coordinate with the authors from multiple […]

Studying South African Sports History: A Current Perspective Dean Allen [bio] Senior Lecturer School of Psychology and Sport Sciences Northumbria University Introduction The history of sport in South Africa is about more than mere games. Within the preface to his study of The Games Ethic and Imperialism, J.A. Mangan expressed the wish that he: Would not like […]

Ethnicity, Conflict and Peace-building: Effects of European Football Support in Nigeria Henry Olusegun Majaro-Majesty [bio] Department of Adult Education Faculty of Education University of Ibadan, Ibadan Abstract In recent times, sport has been exploited as tool for engendering peace in communities, cities, and between nations of the world. At the same time, numerous writers have raised […]

In Tribute to Manute Bol for his Humanitarian Commitment to Sudan Jennifer McArdle Assistant Editor, IMPUMELELO Ohio University Manute Bol Keynote Address Sports in Africa Conference 2007 The National Basketball Association is known for a lot of things, but humanitarian work is usually not high on the list. Yet, sometimes unique individuals are able to […]

Limited success of African football at Africa’s World Cup Gerard Akindes Ohio University During the first round of the World Cup, game after game, many commentators and analysts mentioned that, for the first time in the history of the World Cup, Africa had 6 representatives. In fact, it was the highest African representation ever at […]

Perspectives on the World Cup Tournament in South Africa David Bogopa Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University School of Governmental and Social Sciences Department of Sociology and Anthropology Introduction The focus of this piece is to reflect briefly on three issues: organization, performance, and fair play. Lastly I make some recommendations. Organization There is no doubt in […]

Ayoba!: Reflections From South Africa’s World Cup Derek Charles Catsam University of Texas of the Permian Basin “Ayoba!” It doesn’t have a perfect English translation. Some say it means “cool,” or “excellent,” or “awesome.” But it means more than that, and it may well have been the unofficial word of the World Cup that South […]

Overheard: A World Cup of Voices Andrew Guest University of Portland Perhaps my favorite thing about the 2010 World Cup was the way it offered a forum for so many of us to think about and engage with South Africa, and with Africa more broadly, in new and challenging ways.  For me, it became a […]

Reflections on the African World Cup: ‘make the circle bigger’ Siphokazi Magadla Consultant, Institute for Security Studies, Tshwane, South Africa Almost two weeks after the end of the 2010 soccer World Cup in my home country, I still struggle to articulate the various strong motions awakened by this tournament. After many questions and doubts about […]

Reflections from an American transplant in South Africa Kristen Rankin Ohio University Currently  Peace Corps volunteer in South Africa “Gooooal!” The boy runs around the field, arms out-stretched, pausing for high-fives. The kids have erected their latest soccer field: buckets as goal posts and a halved two-liter bottle as the ball. Their fervor for the […]