SportsAfrica @ ASA Conference 2024

67th African Studies Association Annual Conference
December 11–December 14, 2024
Chicago, IL (USA)

SportsAfrica Trivia 
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Room Armitage, 4th Floor

SportsAfrica Sessions

Session 1 • Institutionalized Sports and African Nation States
1:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Room: Wisconsin (6th floor)

Chair: Simon Akindes, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

They’ve Won Medals for Dignity,” Kenya’s Place in the 1976 Montreal Olympic Boycott
Lorna Kimaiyo, Columbia University

South Africa Out, Rhodesia In: Nigeria Exercises Its Leadership Position at the 1972 Munich Olympics Boycott Threats
Yomi Ejikunle, University of Louisville

Looking Beyond Harambee: Inter-Collegiate Running, Kenyan Athletic Agency, and Transnational East Africans in the 1970s
Dawson McCall, Loyola University, New Orleans

Session 2 • Institutionalized Sports and African Nation States
3:45 PM – 5:30 PM
Room: Scottsdale (5th floor)

Chair: Papa Owusu-Kwarteng, Ohio University

Gender Inequality: A study investigating factors causing gender inequality in Physical Education in Uganda
Taremwa Crispus, Makerere University

Celebrating African Female Athletes: Are they agents of social change? Do they have a voice? 
Emma Ariyo, Gonzaga University

Letsile Tebogo makes history for the world, Africa, and Botswana at the Summer Olympics
Mooketsi Molefi, University of Michigan

SportsAfrca Member-Affiliated and Other Sport-Related Sessions

1:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Room: Iowa (6th floor)

Exploring Physical Activity Engagement in African-born Black
Immigrant Women in the US: An Explanatory Mixed Methods
Study
Bose Maposa, Ohio University

Roundtable – SportsAfrica: 20 Years of Advancing African Sports Studies
3:45 TO 5:30 PM
Room: Michigan State (6th floor)

Co-Chair: Martha Saavedra, University of California, Berkeley
Co-Chair: Bose Maposa, Ohio University

Panelists

Peter Alegi, Michigan State University
Tarminder Kaur, University of Johannesburg
Louisette-Renée Thobi, Conférence des Ministres de la Jeunesse et des Sports de la Francophonie (CONFEJES)

SportsAfrica & Center for International Studies at OHIO University Reception
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Room: Waveland (4th Floor)

SportsAfrica Meeting • (For all members and all interested)
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Room: Northwestern (6th floor)

SportsAfrca Member-Affiliated and Other Sport-Related Sessions

1:30 PM–3:15 PM
Room: Great America I/II (6th floor)

The Gaullist Redefinition of the Forms of French Cultural Influence in Africa: Challenges of Global Interdependencies in Franco-African Sport (1944-1969)
Pascal Charitas, University Paris, Nanterre

1:30 PM–3:15 PM
Room: Minnesota (6th floor)

Political Economy of Sports Development in Africa
Ellen Milimu, University of Massachusetts Boston

Session 3 •Sporting Life (Hi)stories (5th floor)

10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Room: Northwestern (6th floor)

Chair: Martha Saavedra, University of California, Berkeley

Afrobelgian Football History Matters 
Peter Alegi, Michigan State University and Gerard Akindes, Northwestern University, Qatar

Soccer and Personhood: A South African Subaltern Story
Tarminder Kaur, University of Johannesburg (South Africa)

Becoming the Tiger Kid: The Rise of A Black Capetonian Boxing Promoter in Early Apartheid
Tyler Fleming, University of Louisville, Departments of Pan-African Studies & History

SportsAfrca Member-Affiliated Session 
8:00 AM – 9:45 AM
Great America I/II (6th floor)

Doing Postcolonial History: A Viewpoint from Kenyan Competitive Running, 1945-2016
Chepchirchir Tirop, Stanford University