How has the state impacted culture and cultural production in Africa? How has culture challenged and transformed the state and our understandings of its nature, functions, and legitimacy? Compelled by complex realities on the ground as well as interdisciplinary scholarly debates on the state-culture dynamic, senior scholars and emerging voices examine the intersections of the state, culture, and politics in postcolonial Africa in this lively and wide-ranging volume. The coverage here is continental and topics include literature, politics, philosophy, music, religion, theatre, film, television,…mehr
How has the state impacted culture and cultural production in Africa? How has culture challenged and transformed the state and our understandings of its nature, functions, and legitimacy? Compelled by complex realities on the ground as well as interdisciplinary scholarly debates on the state-culture dynamic, senior scholars and emerging voices examine the intersections of the state, culture, and politics in postcolonial Africa in this lively and wide-ranging volume. The coverage here is continental and topics include literature, politics, philosophy, music, religion, theatre, film, television, sports, child trafficking, journalism, city planning, and architecture. Together, the essays provide an energetic and nuanced portrait of the cultural forms of politics and the political forms of culture in contemporary Africa.
Tejumola Olaniyan is Louise Durham Mead Professor of African Cultural Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics and African Diaspora and the Disciplines.
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Introduction 1. Culture and the Study of Politics in Post-Colonial Africa Patrick Chabal 2. Joined at the Hip: African Literature and Africa's Body-Politic Niyi Osundare 3. Philosophy and the State in Postcolonial Africa Olúfémi Táíwò 4. Soccer and the State: The Politics and Morality of Daily Life Michael G. Schatzberg 5. The Enchanted History of Nigerian State Television Matthew H. Brown 6. "Performing like there's no tomorrow": Theatre, War and Social Vulnerability in Mozambique Luís Madureira 7. Fissures of Trespass: Women as Agents of Transgression Amidst National Disenchantment Névine El Nossery 8. The Sudanese Nation and Its Fragments: Tayeb Salih's Literary Archaeology Sofia Samatar 9. The African Postcolonial Predicament: A Logic of Revenge, Prison Poetry, and Becoming Human Ken Walibora Waliaula 10. "Jesus Christ Executive Producer": Pentecostal Parapolitics in Nollywood Films Akin Adesokan 11. Hi-fi Sociality, Lo-fi Sound: Affect and Precarity in an Independent South African Recording Studio Louise Meintjes 12. Talibé Trafficking: The Transformation of Koranic Teaching in Senegal Lark Porter 13. Tradition of Resistance in Nigeria's Print Media: The Example of TheNEWS Kunle Ajibade 14. Improvisational Characteristics of an Urban Fragment: Oxford St., Accra Ato Quayson 15. Gaining Ground: Squatters and the Right to the City Anne-Maria Makhulu 16. African Urban Garrison Architecture: Property, Armed Robbery, Para-Capitalism Tejumola Olaniyan Index
Introduction 1. Culture and the Study of Politics in Post-Colonial Africa Patrick Chabal 2. Joined at the Hip: African Literature and Africa's Body-Politic Niyi Osundare 3. Philosophy and the State in Postcolonial Africa Olúfémi Táíwò 4. Soccer and the State: The Politics and Morality of Daily Life Michael G. Schatzberg 5. The Enchanted History of Nigerian State Television Matthew H. Brown 6. "Performing like there's no tomorrow": Theatre, War and Social Vulnerability in Mozambique Luís Madureira 7. Fissures of Trespass: Women as Agents of Transgression Amidst National Disenchantment Névine El Nossery 8. The Sudanese Nation and Its Fragments: Tayeb Salih's Literary Archaeology Sofia Samatar 9. The African Postcolonial Predicament: A Logic of Revenge, Prison Poetry, and Becoming Human Ken Walibora Waliaula 10. "Jesus Christ Executive Producer": Pentecostal Parapolitics in Nollywood Films Akin Adesokan 11. Hi-fi Sociality, Lo-fi Sound: Affect and Precarity in an Independent South African Recording Studio Louise Meintjes 12. Talibé Trafficking: The Transformation of Koranic Teaching in Senegal Lark Porter 13. Tradition of Resistance in Nigeria's Print Media: The Example of TheNEWS Kunle Ajibade 14. Improvisational Characteristics of an Urban Fragment: Oxford St., Accra Ato Quayson 15. Gaining Ground: Squatters and the Right to the City Anne-Maria Makhulu 16. African Urban Garrison Architecture: Property, Armed Robbery, Para-Capitalism Tejumola Olaniyan Index
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