Africa Business of Sport Podcast
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This episode is part of our series in partnership with Football Foundation for Africa, the organizers of the Africa Football Business Summit on 18-19 October in Nairobi, Kenya.
Dr Chiweshe is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Community Development, University of Zimbabwe and a Research Fellow in the Sociology Department, Rhodes University, South Africa. He is an award-winning and widely published scholar on African football.
On this episode, Dr. Chiweshe shares his thoughts on the need for more African scholars to contribute to global sports development journals and publications, his research on the African football fandom landscape, how African football federations could harness the development of domestic football leagues and how African football can attract investment. Dr. Chiweshe also discusses the commercialisation of the African fan amid high population growth for Africa in the coming decades, sports betting companies’ push in African sport and the rapid emergence of blockchain-based fan engagement companies like Socios.
To find out more about and secure your tickets for the AFBS, click here: https://afbs.footballfoundation.africa/registration/
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