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Country profile: sport policy in Uganda
(International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 2022-07-01) Emmanuel, Sebata; Yanli, Li
Explicitly tracing the current sport system structure, status and policy framework, this article is set out to review and provide a broad understanding of Uganda’s sports policies. It examines historical overview, government involvement, administrative setup and the wider sport policy setting including the funding mechanisms, elite sport participation and performance, legal framework, key trends, and emerging sport policy issues. The article offers an up-to-date overview of Uganda’s sport policy landscape largely since it gained its independence from the colonial rulers in 1962. However much Uganda is regarded as one of the African sports powerhouses, relatively little research has been published on both its earlier and contemporary sport policies, and even less on the implementation, administration, management and performance of elite sport. It argues that the main ambitions and priorities of the Ugandan government should not only be concentrated on attaining mass sports participation, elite sport success, national identity, economic transformation and a healthy and active population but rather on striking a balance between them. The article delineates the starting point for improving sports development through reshaping Uganda’s sport policy.
From the Asia-Pacific to Africa: the involvement of stakeholders in the novel esports societies in the digital sport era
(Sport in Society, 2024-06-17) Sebata, Emmanuel; Li, Yanli
Esport is steadily evolving yet gaining recognition and critical mass although still in its infancy. Since it is a relatively new phenomenon, new potential stakeholders emerge. However, esports stakeholder panoramas in many Asia-Pacific and African societies have remained obscure. By incorporating the stakeholder theory, integrative literature review, focus group research design, this paper offers fruitful insights about the esport ecosystem in the digital sport era. The findings underpin that anchoring stakeholder relationships on technology adoption, hands-on stakeholder engagements and collaborations, institutionalization of gaming and esports tourism, entities can boost their competitiveness and momentum to flourish in the midst of legitimacy challenges and the growing antagonism with traditional sports. The result indicates that stakeholders occupy valuable space in the value chain. This paper’s key contribution is the proposing of a conceptual framework for augmenting growth, co-creation, governance, and future ecosystem mapping in the increasingly dynamic esport space.
Historical Review of Professional Football Migration Trends from Uganda in the Era of Liberalized Sport Labour Migration, 1964-2022
(The International Journal of the History of Sport, 2023-12-15) Li, Yanli; Sebata, Emmanuel
Elite football migration from Africa has drawn much scholarly attention. The social value attached to the ostensibly fortunate players crossing borders has grown expansively in the continent. Still, little empirical research is available on East African football. To lay the foundations to study Ugandan footballers’ transnational lives, history, and migration trajectory, a historical review of Uganda’s football migration trends is presented. Until 1962, Ugandan sports were under the British influence and control, athlete movement was restricted, football structures were flimsy, and the economy was in dismay. With professionalization, globalization, commercialization of sports, as well as the free movement of professional athletes endorsed by the 1995 Bosman Ruling, ushered in a new era of liberalized sport labour migration. Ugandan footballers were among those who participated in this phenomenon, sometimes using other African football leagues as a springboard to their desired destinations. While football migration in the early years was dominated by men, by the early 2000s women footballers also started departing, albeit at a slower pace and following distinct migration trajectories to their male counterparts. Moreover, Ugandan footballers do not follow a predictable or consistent migration patterns, exposing the need for indepth research into the unique migration trajectories and life histories.
The role of globalization, partnerships and technology in enhancing sports excellence in Africa.
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2016) Peter, M. Wanderi; Constance, A. N. Nsibambi; Andanje, Mwisukha
It has variously been argued out that sport is as old as the human race. Thus, within the African continent in general, games and sports have been in existence since time immemorial and they have all along occurred in a variety of forms and models. A distinction has therefore been made between African indigenous games/sports on the one hand and modern or contemporary games/sports in Africa on the other hand. Thus, it is vital that, right from the onset, operational definitions are offered for the words and terms used in this chapter. First and foremost, games are defined among many other ways, as a set of non-verbal signs of communication. They are also cultural actions that depict achievements of human groups and have socially approved functional inclinations. Whenever they are played, they enhance acquisition of skills and attributes that are required for all-round maintenance of life for everyone. This holds true for both indigenous games as well as modern games as explained in the abundantly available literature (Adams, 1991; Kenyatta, 1992; Wanderi, 1999, 2001; Wanderi, Kithuka and Mwenda, 2013). Two of the most commonly occurring words in this chapter are games and sport/ sports. To start with, most authors, including in this chapter, use the words games and sport or sports synonymously. The word game is also seen to synonymously refer to some sport and involves activities performed either formally or informally. Participation in a game or a sport may be directed by one or a combination of some interrelated factors, such as the need for physical fitness, fun, relaxation, leisure, prestige, recognition, status or other similar motives (Ituh, 1999; Wanderi, 2001; Wanderi et al., 2013). A game or a sport may be competitive or noncompetitive in performance. Participants may win or lose in such sportive activities due to one or a combination of several factors that include a high or low skill level, good or poor strategy or even luck factors (Ituh, 1999; Wanderi, 2001). However, on other instances, some authors use these two words differently and are said to refer to physical activities in a continuum. This continuum ranges from ‘play’ as the lowest form of activity, and mostly unstructured, to ‘games’ at a middle level, while ‘sports’ are at the highest level on the continuum and are most structured activities with very definite rules. Another term, ‘physical education or PE’ is also used in this paper to refer to the didactic aspects of training students on the sportive physical activities in line with a specified curriculum. This form of training or teaching may take place at a basic school, a secondary school, a college or a university. Finally, to bridge the gap between all these definitions is the definition of ‘sport’ by UNICEF (2004, p. 1), which defines sports as ‘all forms of physical activity that contribute to physical fitness, mental wellbeing and social interaction. These include play; recreation; casual, organized or competitive sport; and indigenous sports or games’. UNICEF (2004, p. 1) further says that sport ‘involves rules or customs and sometimes competition. Play – especially among children – is any physical activity that is fun and participatory. It is often unstructured and free from adult direction. Recreation is more organized than play, and generally entails physically active leisure activities. Play, recreation and sports are all freely chosen activities undertaken for pleasure’ (UNICEF, 2004, p. 1).

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