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dc.contributor.authorPhyllis M., Martin-
dc.contributor.editorProfessor Naomi Chazanen_US
dc.contributor.editorProfessor Christopher Claphamen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-07T12:33:14Z-
dc.date.available2018-11-07T12:33:14Z-
dc.date.issued1995-
dc.identifier.isbn0 52149551 2-
dc.identifier.urihttp://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/18910-
dc.descriptionIn 1936, a controversy erupted over Brazzaville football. The subject of debate was whether players should wear shoes in matches or play barefooted. The European administrators of the Native Sports Federation decreed that wearing shoes encouraged violence on the field, that Africans were unsportsmanlike, and that they must, therefore, play barefooted. Some team captains, who were also part of the urban elite and wore shoes on a daily basis, were so outraged that they wrote to the Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa (AEF) asking him to reverse the ruling, which, on the advice of sports administrators, he did not. This shoes controversy brought to a head the already contentious relationship of European sports organizers with players in Bacongo and Poto-Poto, Brazzaville's two African districts. When the team leaders organized a boycott, the official football league collapsed.en_US
dc.languageenen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCambridgeen_US
dc.subjectLeisure - Congo (Brazzaville) - Historyen_US
dc.titleLeisure and society in colonial Brazzavilleen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
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