Conference on Sports in Africa

ICSSPE
11/10/2011 13:20

 

The Institute of the African Child and the Center for Sports Administration, both based at Ohio University, USA, invite participants to the 8th Sports in Africa Conference, taking place from 6-7 April, 2012, in Athens, Ohio, USA.

 

The conference’s main theme is Sports and Community Building in Africa and the Global South, and builds upon the Sports in Africa Symposium in 2002. The focus of the conference is to understand and discuss the effects of mega-events and global marketing on sports play in local communities in Africa and the Global South.

 

Topics of the 2012 event will include:

 

  • Sport and community health;
  • International sponsors and the nature of local sports;
  • Elite versus community sport;
  • Sports and education;
  • Sports and wellness in local communities;
  • Global sports in the workplace;
  • Sport and community building;
  • Globalisation;
  • Sports and rural communities;
  • Sports in the city: new challenges, new communities;
  • Financing local sports;
  • Impact of mega events on the environment;
  • Mega-events, urban landscape and architecture;
  • Media and imagined communities;
  • Sport and culture.

 

Paper submissions on these topics must be submitted by 4 March, 2012.

 

For more information, please click here or contact Gerard A. Akindes at akindesgohio.edu