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This article analyzes one of the key features of the increased trading in African football
labor since the 1990s, the establishment of football “academies” in Africa. The article
begins by setting out a broad explanatory framework that articulates the transit of African
footballers to Europe and the role of football academies in this process as a form of neocolonial
.