Postcolonial Africa and its Lotteries
Postcolonial Africa and its Lotteries Ilana van Wyk How to cite: van Wyk, I. (2021). Postcolonial Africa and its Lotteries. Critical Gambling Studies . https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs117 This non-peer reviewed entry is published as part of the Critical Gambling Studies Blog. Over the last twenty years, a growing body of work on the decolonization of Africa has focused on leisure activities, and particularly on the ways in which these activities mark growing inequalities (Grundlingh, 2003, pp. 174-189) and define postcolonial identities, citizenship, bodies and morality (Besnier, Brownell & Carter, 2017, pp. 39-70; Diouf, 2003, pp. 1-12; Wagg, 2005). As several scholars have also shown, religious activities (Marshall, 2009) as well as sports and cultural clubs (Diouf, 2003, p. 8) in postcolonial Africa often threaten the postcolonial state’s political and moral order. Surprisingly, given the pervasiveness of both gambling and state lotteries on the cont...