Doping and Anti-Doping in Africa: Theory and Practice

This is the first book to focus on the problem of performance- enhancing substances and methods – also known as doping – in sports from African perspectives.

Placing traditional African thinking and indigenous knowledge systems at the centre of the analysis, this book shines new light on the distinctive characteristics of African sporting cultures, doping practices, the management of anti- doping, and new methods for preventing doping in sports that take into account African value systems. T...