To cite this article: Thomas Riot (2010) Le Football Rwanda: Un simulacre guerrier dans la créolisation d'une société , Canadian Journal of African Studies/La Revue canadienne des études africaines, 44:1, 75-109To link to this article: http://dx.
AbstractThe history of football in Rwanda begins with the colonization of the country. In about fifty years, this game, which originated in England, has become a local cultural practice, by integrating an agro-pastoral and warlike society. In order to understand this phenomenon, one needs to articulate the colonial anchoring of a cosmopolitan activity into local cultural [re]inventions created by its implantation. This article aims to show how a ball game, introduced in a society in the process of westernization, has left its mark on the building of warlike modernity received and shaped by the players of the time. In analyzing the transpositions of the game into larger social and political stakes, one notices that this practice, while partaking of the "civilization" goal which the colonial administration had given itself, constituted one of the spearheads of the fight for emancipation. Résumé L'histoire du football Rwanda commence avec la colonisation du pays. En une cinquantaine d'années, ce jeu sport d'origine anglaise, en intégrant une société agro-pastorale et guerrière, est devenu une pratique culturelle locale. Comprendre ce phénomène nécessite d'articuler l'ancrage colonial d'une activité cosmopolite aux [ré]inventions culturelles locales suscitées
2 Il s'agit du décret du 8 mars 1934, adopté alors que Pierre Laval est ministre des Colonies. Il fut publié dans le Journal Oiciel de l'AOF du 7 avril 1934 sous les titres : I. « Contrôle des ilms cinématographiques, des disques phonographiques » ; II. « Contrôle des prises de vue cinématographiques et des enregistrements sonores ».
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