Ghana's Black Queens: The Women Who Made Football in the Postcolonial Nation

Focusing on the story of women's football in Ghana, this to book tells the universal story of women's struggle for full and equal citizenship from a uniquely African and postcolonial perspective.

Exploring themes of gender, sexuality, national identity, and culture, Ghana's Black Queens situates women's football in Ghana within the context of international, national, and local politics, to show how FIFA's decision to establish the Women's World Cup in 1991 had direct implications on a burgeo...