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Urban football narratives and the colonial process in Lourenço Marques
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Support for Portuguese football teams, in Mozambique as well as in other former
Portuguese colonies, could be interpreted either as a sign of the importance of a
cultural colonial heritage in Africa or as a symbol of a perverse and neo-colonial
acculturation. This article, focused on Maputo, the capital of Mozambique –
formerly called Lourenc¸o Marques – argues that in order to understand
contemporary social bonds, it is crucial to research the connection between the
colonial process of urbanisation and the rise of urban popular cultures. Despite
the existence of social discrimination in colonial Lourenc¸o Marques, deeply
present in the spatial organisation of a city divided between a ‘concrete’ centre
and the immense periphery, the consumption of football, as part of an emergent
popular culture, crossed segregation lines. I argue that football narratives, locally
appropriated, became the basis of daily social rituals and encounters, an element
of urban sociability and the content of increasingly larger social networks.
Therefore, the fact that a Portuguese narrative emerged as the dominant form of
popular culture is deeply connected to the growth of an urban community.
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Futebol Moçambique Colonialismo
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Domingos, N. (2011). Urban football narratives and the colonial process in Lourenço Marques, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 28 (15), pp. 2159-2175