Abraham Seda
Biographic Data
| ID | 89945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abraham Seda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abraham |
| FAMILY NAME | Seda |
| SIGNATURE | SEDA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota System |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5598-3097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Fighting in the Shadow of an Apartheid State
Boxing was arguably the most popular and controversial sport in colonial Zimbabwe. To tame the sport's violence, which was considered too extreme, colonial officials in Zimbabwe sought guidance and advice from South Africa from the mid-1930s on how best to regulate the sport. South Africa occupied a unique position in this regard, not only because of the relationship it had with colonial Zimbabwe as a neighbouring white settler colony, but also b…
African Boxing, Social Control and "Subversive Culture" in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1900-1960
Among "imperial games" in colonial Zimbabwe, boxing was arguably the most popular and controversial. While colonial administrators tried to impose the orthodoxy of western style boxing, African boxers, through the use of Indigenous performance enhancing substances, redefined the boxing ring as a space in which they asserted their cultural practices, which were not always legible to colonial administrators. Performance enhancing substances such as…
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Fighting in the Shadow of an Apartheid State
Boxing was arguably the most popular and controversial sport in colonial Zimbabwe. To tame the sport's violence, which was considered too extreme, colonial officials in Zimbabwe sought guidance and advice from South Africa from the mid-1930s on how best to regulate the sport. South Africa occupied a unique position in this regard, not only because of the relationship it had with colonial Zimbabwe as a neighbouring white settler colony, but also b…
African Boxing, Social Control and "Subversive Culture" in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1900-1960
Among "imperial games" in colonial Zimbabwe, boxing was arguably the most popular and controversial. While colonial administrators tried to impose the orthodoxy of western style boxing, African boxers, through the use of Indigenous performance enhancing substances, redefined the boxing ring as a space in which they asserted their cultural practices, which were not always legible to colonial administrators. Performance enhancing substances such as…
Jumping over histories
Colonialism (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (2 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (2 works)