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Muhammad Ali as Diplomat and African Debates on the 1980 Moscow Olympic Boycott
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2098577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Alexander Ivey (0000-0001-9848-4979, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 490-508 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/asr.2022.111 |
| OpenAlex | W4294877937 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
To rally support within Africa for America's boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games, President Carter sent Muhammad Ali as his personal diplomat to Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Liberia, and Senegal in an attempt to gain political and popular support for the boycott. The mission had limited success, but it inspired a public forum across the continent for criticisms of American foreign policy toward Africa. By analyzing these discussions, primarily within the press, Ivey shows how America was interpreted in Africa and how the issues of the Cold War were considered of secondary importance to the more immediate struggle against apartheid and independent foreign policy
Boycott · Cold war · Ethnology · Foreign policy · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tanzania · Canadian Identity and History · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |