Drama, Fields and Metaphors: An Introduction to Football in Africa; R.Giulianotti & G.Armstrong PART ONE: CONTESTED SELECTIONS Containment and Counter-Attack: A History of Eritrean Football; A.Last Football in Algeria: Between Violence and Politics; Y.Fates 'A Story of Heroes, of Epics': The Rise of Football in Nigeria; W.Boer Between Colonialism, Independence and Globalism: Football in Zimbabwe; R.Giulianotti PART TWO: FOOTBALLING COLOURS Ngoma Reverberations: Swahili Music Culture and the Making of Football Aesthetics in Early Thirteenth Century Zanzibar; L.Fair Football and Apartheid Society: The South African Soccer League, 1960-1966; P.Alegi Football and Ethnicity in Mauritius: (Re)producing Communal Allegiances; T.Edensor & I.Koodoruth Chasing the Ghosts: Narratives of Football and Nation in Morocco; G.Stanton PART THREE: OFF THE BALL MOVEMENTS France in the Cameroonian Football Imagination; B.Vidacs Life, Death and The Biscuit: Football and the Embodiment of Society in Liberia, West Africa; G.Armstrong Playing Against Deprivation: Football and Development in Nairobi, Kenya; H.Hognestad & A.Tollisen PART FOUR: MOVING WITH THE BALL Three Geographies of African Footballer Migration: Patterns, Problems and Postcoloniality; J.Bale The Migration of the Black Panther: An Interview with Eusebio of Mozambique and Portugal; G.Armstrong Extra Time; P.Woodward