| The African Game | 
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Sales Rank: 655614
Category: Book
Author: Knox Robinson
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Studio: powerHouse Books
Manufacturer: powerHouse Books
Label: powerHouse Books
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.9
Dimensions (in): 13.4 x 10.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 1576873242
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.334096
EAN: 9781576873243
ASIN: 1576873242
Publication Date: May 2006
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Product Description
The African Game is a unique vision of the continent as documented by Nigerian photographer and filmmaker Andrew Dosunmu. Punctuated with vivid essays by journalist Knox Robinson, The African Game looks to soccer as a way to explore modern African life, culture, and identity. A compelling, on-the-ground depiction of Africa?s passion for soccer, this book is the first look at the rich sporting culture that has produced some of professional soccer?s biggest and highest-paid stars. The African Game will be a definitive resource during this summer?s World Cup, which will show the continent?s players emerging as some of the game?s best?as we look to South Africa as the host of the 2010 World Cup. As these pioneers change the way the game is played?and the way we think about the sport itself?The African Game provides crucial back-story and documents the soccer mania that has gripped the entire continent. Like a film artfully moving through its plot, The African Game follows a narrative of the sport in Cameroon, Senegal, Togo, Cote D?Ivoire, Angola, Ghana, Tunisia, and Egypt by exploring its resonance at all levels of the culture, from national team sponsorship to the unmistakable street style that Africa?s soccer mania inspires. The African Game mixes classic portraiture and gripping reportage-style photography to frame Africa, its sporting heritage, and its everyday vibrancy in a way that is rarely seen?Africa as it actually exists, not as we imagine it to be. With imagistic essays framed by vital facts and stats about each team, The African Game will not only be an indispensable resource in the months leading up to the 2010 World Cup?it will be an unprecedented document of the sport and its place at the center of African popular culture. PUMA will donate proceeds from the sale of The African Game to Grassroots Soccer, a non-profit organization that mobilizes the global soccer community in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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a game well played July 6, 2006
this large scale photographic essay is one of a kind, offering a rare and exciting glimpse into the absolute spectacle of african futbol. capturing the intrinsic glory and unchecked passion of the spectators, the fans, the players, and the whirlwind of activities and festivities surrounding the games, the african game puts the reader squarely in the center of the action. we have witnessed the rise of american soccer as it has blossomed here, but the remarkable show that is the african game is unlike anything else!
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