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