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16th Annual Conference – 16ème Conférence SportsAfrica
April 3–5, 2025 • Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Institut de la Jeunesse et des Sports
Theme: Sports in Africa: Ethics, Bioethics, Technologies & Culture
Thème: Sport en Afrique : Éthique, Bioéthique, Technologies et Culture
Other sports-related themes accepted – Autres thèmes liés au sport acceptés
Call for Papers – Appel a Contribution
This Abidjan Conference marks the 20th anniversary of SportsAfrica Network, an organization dedicated to advancing Sports Studies in Africa. To present at the conference, please submit your abstract by January 27, 2025
@ https://sportsafrica.org/soumission-des-resumes-abstract-submission/
Cette conférence d’Abidjan marque le 20e anniversaire du réseau SportsAfrica, une organisation dédiée à l’avancement des études sportives en Afrique. Pour présenter à la conférence, veuillez soumettre votre résumé avant le 27 janvier 2025
@ https://sportsafrica.org/soumission-des-resumes-abstract-submission/
SportsAfrica @ the 67th Annual Meeting of African Studies Association
Chicago, Illinois, December 11-15, 2024
SportsAfrica Trivia
Session 1 • Institutionalized Sports and African Nation States
Session 2 • Institutionalized Sports and African Nation States
Session 3 • Sporting Life (Hi)stories (5th floor)
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November 30 – December 2, 2023
San Francisco, CA (USA)
December 1, 2023, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM – Room Sierra E
Politics of Social Movements in Sports December 1, 2023, 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Telling Sporting Stories December 1, 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
Struggle over African Football Dreams December 2, 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
More about the panels and the panelists
| SportsAfrica First Scholarly Forum |
| SportsAfrica 15th Conference |
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Sports Africa Conference 14th Conference
African nations and world competitions – State of Play
The Sociology and Anthropology Department at the Nelson Mandela University in partnership with Sports Africa, and the Center for International Studies at Ohio University hosted the 14th edition of the Sports Africa Conference.Advancing African Sports Studies
Make African sport studies an interdisciplinary, inclusive, accessible and integral part of the global conversation and scholarship on sports with the intellectually vibrant, creative and passionate community of practitioners and academics.
In fall 2003, a handful of African Studies scholars met during the African Studies Association conference in Boston to discuss the state of African Sports Studies in higher education. At this meeting, they founded and launched the Sports Africa Network.
From 2004 to 2014, the conference was held at Ohio University. The first 10 annual meetings addressed a variety of theoretical and practical themes: economics, gender, health, communication, politics, globalization. Training, financing, infrastructure, etc…
After ten annual meetings at Ohio University in Athens (USA), the conference moved to Africa in 2017 where it was first hosted by the Institute for Peace and Social Justice at Bloemfontein Free State University (South Africa). The theme of this eleventh Sports Africa Conference was “Sporting Subalternities and Social Justice“. In 2018, the twelfth conference was hosted by the University of Zambia under the theme ”Pan-African Sport Studies: Beyond Physical Education”. In 2019, Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar (Senegal) had the honor of being the first French and non-English speaking country to host the conference.
The conference, established as the flagship activity of Sports Africa Network, continues to be an exclusive forum for research on the theory and practice of sports in Africa to be produced, exchanged, and disseminated.
With the determination and passion of a group of scholars and practitioners from academic institutions, professional and non-profit organizations around the world, the Sports Africa Network has become an established name in African Sports Studies.
| Board Members | |
Dr. Gerard Akindes Prof. Simon Akindes Dr. Hikabwa D. Chipende Dr. Tarminder Kaur Dr. Matthew Kirwin | Dr. Bose Maposa Ms. Tasiyiwa Katie Mapondera Dr. Papa Owusu-Kwarteng Dr. Martha Saavedra Dr. Michele Sikes |
Advancing African Sports Studies
Make African sport studies an interdisciplinary, inclusive, accessible and integral part of the global conversation and scholarship on sports with the intellectually vibrant, creative and passionate community of practitioners and academics.
In fall 2003, a handful of African Studies scholars met during the African Studies Association conference in Boston to discuss the state of African Sports Studies in higher education. At this meeting, they founded and launched the Sports Africa Network.
From 2004 to 2014, the conference was held at Ohio University. The first 10 annual meetings addressed a variety of theoretical and practical themes: economics, gender, health, communication, politics, globalization. Training, financing, infrastructure, etc…
After ten annual meetings at Ohio University in Athens (USA), the conference moved to Africa in 2017 where it was first hosted by the Institute for Peace and Social Justice at Bloemfontein Free State University (South Africa). The theme of this eleventh Sports Africa Conference was “Sporting Subalternities and Social Justice“. In 2018, the twelfth conference was hosted by the University of Zambia under the theme ”Pan-African Sport Studies: Beyond Physical Education”. In 2019, Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar (Senegal) had the honor of being the first French and non-English speaking country to host the conference.
The conference, established as the flagship activity of Sports Africa Network, continues to be an exclusive forum for research on the theory and practice of sports in Africa to be produced, exchanged, and disseminated.
With the determination and passion of a group of scholars and practitioners from academic institutions, professional and non-profit organizations around the world, the Sports Africa Network has become an established name in African Sports Studies.
| Board Members | |
Dr. Gerard Akindes Prof. Simon Akindes Dr. Hikabwa D. Chipende Dr. Tarminder Kaur Dr. Matthew Kirwin | Dr. Bose Maposa Ms. Tasiyiwa Katie Mapondera Dr. Papa Owusu-Kwarteng Dr. Martha Saavedra Dr. Michele Sikes |
Advancing African Sports Studies
Make African sport studies an interdisciplinary, inclusive, accessible and integral part of the global conversation and scholarship on sports with the intellectually vibrant, creative and passionate community of practitioners and academics.
In fall 2003, a handful of African Studies scholars met during the African Studies Association conference in Boston to discuss the state of African Sports Studies in higher education. At this meeting, they founded and launched the Sports Africa Network.
From 2004 to 2014, the conference was held at Ohio University. The first 10 annual meetings addressed a variety of theoretical and practical themes: economics, gender, health, communication, politics, globalization. Training, financing, infrastructure, etc…
After ten annual meetings at Ohio University in Athens (USA), the conference moved to Africa in 2017 where it was first hosted by the Institute for Peace and Social Justice at Bloemfontein Free State University (South Africa). The theme of this eleventh Sports Africa Conference was “Sporting Subalternities and Social Justice“. In 2018, the twelfth conference was hosted by the University of Zambia under the theme ”Pan-African Sport Studies: Beyond Physical Education”. In 2019, Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar (Senegal) had the honor of being the first French and non-English speaking country to host the conference.
The conference, established as the flagship activity of Sports Africa Network, continues to be an exclusive forum for research on the theory and practice of sports in Africa to be produced, exchanged, and disseminated.
With the determination and passion of a group of scholars and practitioners from academic institutions, professional and non-profit organizations around the world, the Sports Africa Network has become an established name in African Sports Studies.
| Board Members | |
Dr. Gerard Akindes Prof. Simon Akindes Dr. Hikabwa D. Chipende Dr. Tarminder Kaur Dr. Matthew Kirwin | Dr. Bose Maposa Ms. Tasiyiwa Katie Mapondera Dr. Papa Owusu-Kwarteng Dr. Martha Saavedra Dr. Michele Sikes |
Advancing African Sports Studies
Make African sport studies an interdisciplinary, inclusive, accessible and integral part of the global conversation and scholarship on sports with the intellectually vibrant, creative and passionate community of practitioners and academics.
In fall 2003, a handful of African Studies scholars met during the African Studies Association conference in Boston to discuss the state of African Sports Studies in higher education. At this meeting, they founded and launched the Sports Africa Network.
From 2004 to 2014, the conference was held at Ohio University. The first 10 annual meetings addressed a variety of theoretical and practical themes: economics, gender, health, communication, politics, globalization. Training, financing, infrastructure, etc…
After ten annual meetings at Ohio University in Athens (USA), the conference moved to Africa in 2017 where it was first hosted by the Institute for Peace and Social Justice at Bloemfontein Free State University (South Africa). The theme of this eleventh Sports Africa Conference was “Sporting Subalternities and Social Justice“. In 2018, the twelfth conference was hosted by the University of Zambia under the theme ”Pan-African Sport Studies: Beyond Physical Education”. In 2019, Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar (Senegal) had the honor of being the first French and non-English speaking country to host the conference.
The conference, established as the flagship activity of Sports Africa Network, continues to be an exclusive forum for research on the theory and practice of sports in Africa to be produced, exchanged, and disseminated.
With the determination and passion of a group of scholars and practitioners from academic institutions, professional and non-profit organizations around the world, the Sports Africa Network has become an established name in African Sports Studies.
| Board Members | |
Dr. Gerard Akindes Prof. Simon Akindes Dr. Hikabwa D. Chipende Dr. Tarminder Kaur Dr. Matthew Kirwin | Dr. Bose Maposa Ms. Tasiyiwa Katie Mapondera Dr. Papa Owusu-Kwarteng Dr. Martha Saavedra Dr. Michele Sikes |
University and, Department
Based in Africa
$100/year
University and, Department
Based Outside of Africa
$250/year
Student
Based in Africa
$5/year
Student
Based Outside of Africa
$10/year
Faculty and Professionals
Based in Africa
$10.00/year
Faculty and Professionals
Based Outside of Africa
$25.00/year
As the 2020 Sports Africa conference is postponed, Sports Africa Network has decided to hold online discussion sessions to continue engaging with the network of scholars and practitioners with meaningful presentations and discussions about Africa and sports in Africa and globally.
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IMPUMELEO, the Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal of African Sports was launched in 2004 to provide n unique immediate and authentic medium for the promotion of sports in Africa. The journal publications focused primarily on sports from an interdisciplinary perspective,
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Sports Africa Network is a non-profit association which fully relies on membership fees to sustain its various activities. We encourage scholars and practitioners with interest in African sport studies and knowledge to join the network and participate in its various activities.
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