Through football, Ghana's Black Queens tells a universal story of women's struggle for full and equal citizenship from a uniquely African and postcolonial perspective. At the heart of this story lies the possibility of a queer feminist African nation.
Exploring themes of gender, sexuality, national identity, and culture, the book shows how FIFA's decision to establish the Women's World Cup in 1991 had direct implications on a burgeoning women's football landscape that the Ghana Football Administration had long ignored.
With insights from in-depth interviews, newspaper and personal archives, and ethnography at matches around the country, Ghana's Black Queens paints a vibrant picture of the struggles and successes of the athletes and administrators who helped to make women's football a reality in the postcolonial nation. Their fight against gender inequality, how they negotiated with heterosexual patriarchy and navigated different political and capitalist decisions provides a blueprint for collectively effecting social change.
Ghana's Black Queens is a sociologically rich text that allows readers to draw broad connections between the immediate story and the larger struggle for feminist equality within the world of soccer and beyond.