European football worlds and youth identifications in Kenya
Abstract
This article examines the various ways in which the phenomenon of English football, beamed across the world via satellite television, provides a canvas upon which many Kenyan youth can confront their lived experiences and desired aspirations. Drawing on theoretical tools fashioned by discourses on identities – pan-Africanist and global – together with dynamics of youth and popular cultural productions, I demonstrate how football as a leisure activity allows the youths a chance to imagine themselves as being more than what they are in material and socio-economic terms. This, I hold, is part of their larger aspirations of assuming global and cosmopolitan identities.
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11295/34969http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14725843.2011.591233
Citation
African Identities . Vol. 9 No. 3. (ISSN. 1472-5843. ):Pp.337–348..Publisher
Department of Language ad Literature