ABSTRACT
The chapter thematises colonialism as an ‘unseen’ and ‘long term’ catastrophe and focuses on the residue that Colonialism has caused, specifically global structural inequalities and race-based assumptions. Set against this backdrop, the chapter uses the lens of two international sport-for-development (SfD) partnerships between Global Northern (UK and USA) and Southern partners (Cameroon) to investigate how the lived experiences of SfD practitioners from Cameroon are influenced by international development discourse including their Global Northern INGO partner. Drawing on interviews with Indigenous Cameroonian SfD practitioners involved in the delivery of SfD programmes the chapter demonstrates that cultural views and norms of Cameroonian SfD practitioners (e.g race-based assumptions) are influenced by broader international development discourse and interactions with their Global Northern INGO partner. Local insights illuminate that the example of the catastrophe of colonialism remain, suggesting that long-term negative postcolonial residue is compounded by global structural inequalities and race-based assumptions that are apparent in the case study international SfD partnerships and day-to-day practices. Implications arising from this research are mainly for SfD INGOs, who fund SfD programmes in the GS and who typically hold the most powerful position within such partnerships.
