ABSTRACT
Sport has been widely framed as a universal site for mobilizing, managing and re-directing people's energies towards the pursuit of social and spatial progress represented as modernization, emancipation, cultural mobility, choices and expansion of opportunities The chapter examines the continuities and discontinuities in Sport for Development (SFD) narratives and structures and the enactments of emblematic SFD projects in Africa intersect with gender and other statuses. This chapter explains how sport and the notion of SFD are conceptualized at the macro-political level and the relationships of these conceptualizations to modernization. It explores how the Foucauldian archaeological and genealogical methods and Crenshaw's intersectionality framework shed light on the complex relationships between sport, gender and development. The chapter compares SFD projects to social enterprises and emphasizes the need to approach SFD management from the social entrepreneurship perspective. The transformation of the lives of SFD participants requires resistance to hegemonic forces, stereotyping, victimization and the trope of dependency.
