State and culture in postcolonial Africa : enchantings / edited by Tejumola Olaniyan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olaniyan, Tejumola, editor, author.

Series:

African expressive cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and state--Africa.

Art and state.

Civilization.

Cultural policy.

Africa--Cultural policy.

Africa.

Africa--Civilization--21st century.

Africa--Social conditions--21st century.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

vii, 323 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]

Contents:

Introduction: State and culture in Africa: the possibilities of strangeness / Tejumola Olaniyan

Culture and the study of politics in postcolonial Africa / Patrick Chabal

Joined at the hip: African literature and Africa's body politic / Niyi Osundare

Philosophy and the state in postcolonial Africa / Olufémi Taiwo

Soccer and the state: the politics and morality of daily life / Michael G. Schatzberg

The enchanted history of Nigerian state television / Matthew H. Brown

"Performing like there's no tomorrow": theater, war, and social vulnerability in Mozambique / Luis Madureira

Fissures of trespass: women as agents of transgression amid national disenchantment / Nevine El Nossery

The Sudanese nation and its fragments: Tayeb Salih's literary archaeology / Sofia Samatar

The African postcolonial predicament: a logic of revenge, prison poetry, and becoming human / Ken Walibora Waliaula

"Jesus Christ, executive producer": Pentecostal parapolitics in Nollywood films / Akin Adesokan

Hi-fi sociality, lo-fi sound: affect and precarity in an independent South African recording studio / Louise Meintjes

Talibe trafficking: the transformation of Koranic teaching in Senegal / Lark Porter

Tradition of resistance in Nigeria's print media: an example from theNEWS / Kunle Ajibade

Improvisational characteristics of an urban fragment: Oxford Street, Accra / Ato Quayson

Gaining ground: squatters and the right to the city / Anne-Maria Makhulu

African urban garrison architecture: property, armed robbery, para-capitalism / Tejumola Olaniyan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: State and culture in postcolonial Africa

ISBN:

9780253029713

0253029716

9780253029980

0253029988

OCLC:

986993735