ABSTRACT
This chapter begins to unravel the impact of sport, colonialism and representation on different groups within various locales in Africa, as well as between “African” and “European. A new “hot topic” known as sport and international development emerged in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Facilitation encourages and diversifies approaches whereby each community can promote its own vision of development. The facilitation process should serve to promote genuine community empowerment. Western nations divided much of the rest of the world into colonial territories, and Africa in particular was completely allocated among European powers who drew arbitrary boundaries that had little to nothing to do with African state formation already in progress. A new Afrocentric approach is needed, however, whereby local institutions and stakeholders examine needs based on their own worldview rather than the worldview generated in the Global North.
