African Fans of European Football: Cultural Globalisation in Kenya and Zimbabwe (Routledge Contemporary Africa) - Hardcover

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Manase Kudzai Chiweshe is an award-winning researcher and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Community and Social Development at the University of Zimbabwe and a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Rhodes University, South Africa. Dr. Chiweshe's research interests include the sociology of everyday life in African spaces, focusing on football, gender, social identity, and livelihoods.

Solomon Waliaula holds a PhD in Literature from Moi University, Kenya and the University of Mainz, Germany and an M.A. in Literature from Moi University, Kenya. A DAAD Scholar and Alexander Von Humboldt alumnus, He is an Associate Professor in Literary and Cultural Studies at Maasai Mara University in Kenya, a Research Associate at the Department of African Literature at the University of Watersrand, South Africa and a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Mainz. His research interests are in popular culture and cultural studies, focusing on electronic media audiences. His current project is on cinema and narration in East Africa and has been generously funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.