Sports and Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia

Sports and Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia

Author: Katrin Bromber

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1847012922

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This first academic study of the history of modern sports in Ethiopia during the imperial rule of the 20th century argues that modern sports offers new possibilities to explore the meanings of modernity in Africa. Providing an in-depth analysis of the role of sports in modern educational institutions, volunteer organizations, and urbanization processes, the author shows how agents, ideas and practices linked societal improvement and bodily improvement.