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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

13. Nigerian Female Football: Ambivalence and Struggle in the Shadows

Authors : Chuka Onwumechili, Kapriatta Jenkins

Published in: 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter analyzes Nigerian women’s football, with a particular focus on the national team, to better understand its status in the rapidly changing world of women’s football. This examination of news and social media text about the Nigerian women’s team at the 2019 World Cup explores how those texts intersect with Nigeria’s social environment to produce and reproduce a different narrative for women’s football in the country. The authors interpret the struggles of women footballers in the country to understand the challenges they face and the methods they use to confront them. The work also examines tweets that surround the struggle of these women during the 2019 World Cup in France to understand public conceptions of Nigerian women’s football, its existence, triumphs, and challenges.

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Metadata
Title
Nigerian Female Football: Ambivalence and Struggle in the Shadows
Authors
Chuka Onwumechili
Kapriatta Jenkins
Copyright Year
2021
Book
2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-75400-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-75401-3

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75401-3_13