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243 Contributors Simon Adetona Akindes is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside. His most recent publication is “Elections in Côte d’Ivoire: The Contrasting Colors of Democratization,” in West Africa’s Quest for Democracy: Lessons in Elections, Liberalization, and Democratization, 1990–2009 (2011). In 2007, he was a guest editor of a special issue of the journal West Africa Review focused on Benin and Ivory Coast. Akindes is a former player on Benin’s national football team and has published on a variety of topics, including photography, visual culture, education, and music. He is a cofounder of Tous au Sport, a nonprofit organization that aims to expand physical activity and sports for health, a better environment, and safe communities (http://usa.tousausport.org/). Peter Alegi is a professor of history at Michigan State University. He is the author of African Soccerscapes: How a Continent Changed the World’s Game (2010) and Laduma!: Soccer, Politics, and Society in South Africa, 2nd ed. (2010). He has also coedited , with Chris Bolsmann, South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid, and Beyond (2010). He hosts the “Africa Past and Present” podcast with Peter Limb (http://afripod.aodl.org) and blogs at Football Is Coming Home (http://www.footbal liscominghome.info). In 2010, he was Visiting Fulbright Professor of History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Orli Bass is a senior project officer at the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. With Udesh Pillay and Richard Tomlinson, she coedited Development and Dreams: The Urban Legacy of the 2010 Football World Cup (2009), and her research interests include cities and culture, African identity and cities, and megaevents. Chris Bolsmann is a senior lecturer in sociology at Aston University. His research focuses on the transformation and marketization of higher education, and football and identity in postapartheid South Africa. He has published in the African Historical Review, Soccer and Society, the International Journal of the History of Sport, the Bulletin of Latin American Research, and the South African Labour Bulletin, among other journals. 244 • Contributors Thabo Dladla is director of soccer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg campus. A former professional footballer, Dladla has coached at the SAFA Transnet School of Excellence and served as an assistant coach for the South African Under-Twenty men’s national team at the 1997 U-20 World Cup. He is the founder and technical director of the Izichwe Youth Football Program in Pietermaritzburg . Killian Doherty holds a master’s degree in architecture from the Royal Technical College (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. He has worked in Stockholm, Dublin, and London and volunteered with a grassroots organization on the post-Katrina reconstruction of New Orleans. A visiting studio tutor at the KTH in Stockholm and Gothenburg and at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology in Kigali, Rwanda, Doherty has exhibited his work internationally and is currently designing and constructing a community sports facility in Kigali. Jennifer Doyle teaches at the University of California, Riverside. Her soccer blog is From a Left Wing (http://fromaleftwing.blogspot.com). She is the author of Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (2006) and is completing a book on difficulty, emotion, and contemporary art. Her current projects include a collection of essays exploring the margins of football culture and a book about art and sport. Laurent Dubois is Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University and the author of several books, including Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (2010). Marc Fletcher holds a PhD in African studies from the University of Edinburgh and is an honorary research fellow at the School of Geography, Archaeology, and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. His research examines the multiple divisions in football fandom in Johannesburg, especially race, ethnicity , and class. Albert Grundlingh is a professor and chair of the history department at the University of Stellenbosch. He has published numerous articles on South African history and historiography. His books include The Dynamics of Treason: Boer Collaboration in the South African War of 1899–1902 (2006) and, with André Odendaal and Burridge Spies, Beyond the Tryline: Rugby and South African Society (1995). Andrew M. Guest teaches in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Portland, Oregon. He spent much of the World Cup year drawing on experiences as a soccer player, coach, and scholar in locales ranging from Ohio and Illinois to Malawi...

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