Boxing is no Cakewalk!: Azumah 'Ring Professor' Nelson in the Social History of Ghanaian Boxing

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Boxing is no cakewalk! Azumah ‘Ring Professor’ Nelson in the Social History of Ghanaian Boxingexplores the social history of boxing in Ghana and its interesting nexus with the biography of Azumah Nelson, unquestionably Ghana’s most celebrated boxer. The book posits that sports constitute more than mere games that people play. They are endowed with enormous political, cultural, economic and social power that can influence people’s lives in various ways. Boxing is no cakewalk! interrogates the social meaning and impact of boxing within the colonial and postcolonial milieux of popular culture in Ghana. Consequently, it reconsiders the prevailing conception of boxing as adversative to ‘enlightened’ human culture by arguing that it is a positive formulator of individual and national identities. The historicising of sports and the lives of sportspersons in Ghana provides an eloquent backdrop for an understanding of the past social dynamics and their effect in the present. The book’s analytical narrative offers an intellectual contribution to the promising areas of social and cultural history in Ghana’s historiography and the scholarly discourse on identity formation and social empowerment through the popular culture of sports.

  • | Author: Botchway, De-Valera NYM
  • | Publisher: NISC (Pty) Ltd
  • | Publication Date: Jul 12, 2019
  • | Number of Pages: 286 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1920033564
  • | ISBN-13: 9781920033569
Author:
Botchway, De-Valera NYM
Publisher:
NISC (Pty) Ltd
Publication Date:
Jul 12, 2019
Number of pages:
286 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1920033564
ISBN-13:
9781920033569