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The history of sport in Africa is an area of research filled with gaping holes, and Todd Cleveland's work will doubtless be used and cited by historians, Olympic scholars, and students. On top of that the text is very well-written; I breezed through it. -- Toby C. Rider, California State University, Fullerton

The history of sport in Africa is an area of research filled with gaping holes, and Todd Cleveland's work will doubtless be used and cited by historians, Olympic scholars, and students. On top of that the text is very well written; I breezed through it. -- Toby C. Rider, California State University, Fullerton

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Todd Cleveland is a distinguished professor of history at the University of Arkansas. His books include these Ohio University Press titles: Sports in Africa, Past and Present (2020), Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975 (2017), Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975 (2015), and Stones of Contention: A History of Africa’s Diamonds (2014).

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