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

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Olaniyan, Tejumola, editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Art and state--Africa.
Art and state.
Africa--Cultural policy.
Africa.
Africa--Civilization--21st century.
Africa--Social conditions--21st century.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (pages cm)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2017.
Summary:
Together, the essays provide an energetic and nuanced portrait of the cultural forms of politics and the political forms of culture in contemporary Africa.
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 / Olufemi 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.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
0-253-03017-X
OCLC:
986993890

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