ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how English cricket ideologies interface with local cricket in the postcolonial nation of Cameroon. It describes the concept of “imagined communities” to demonstrate how the sport has been developed largely by anglophone Cameroonians as a way to reimagine their English heritage and sense of community. The chapter explores cricket has emerged in Cameroon and English ideologies remain dominant. It deals with a literature detailing Cameroon’s cultural history; the relationship of sport to imagined communities; implications of postcolonial theory for sport; and the contemporary role of cricket in Cameroon. The chapter highlights Cameroon’s cricket culture by examining the infrastructure, ideologies, and culture of the Cameroon Cricket Federation (CCF) and how these aspects interface with colonial ideologies associated with cricket. The fieldwork took place in the two mainstays of Cameroon cricket: Yaounde, home to the CCF offices, and the city of Buea in the Southwest Region, a development region for the CCF.
