Afropolitanism: Reboot

Carli Coetzee is the co-editor of Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa (1998) and the author of Accented Futures: Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid (2013). She is the editor of the Journal of African Cultural Studies and a research associate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Introduction 1. Rethinking African culture and identity: the Afropolitan model 2. Cosmopolitanism with African roots: Afropolitanism’s ambivalent mobilities 3. The politics of Afropolitanism 4. Afropolitanism as critical consciousness: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s and Teju Cole’s internet presence 5. Exorcising the future: Afropolitanism’s spectral origins 6. ‘Why I am (still) not an Afropolitan’ 7. Part-Time Africans, Europolitans and ‘Africa lite’ 8. ‘We, Afropolitans’ 9. Being-in-the-world: the Afropolitan Moroccan author’s worldview in the new millennium 10. Naija boy remix: Afroexploitation and the new media creative economies of cosmopolitan African youth