Africa Matters (eBook)
236 Seiten
Daraja Press (Verlag)
978-1-988832-32-6 (ISBN)
Africa Matters: Cultural politics, political economies, & grammars of protest provides a sampling of some of these insightful articles from the first five issues of Nokoko, bringing together some of the pieces that for the editorial board of the journal are particularly perspicacious in their analysis and resonant in their crafting. Like expressions associated with the Ga word, Nokoko has brought something new, novel, if not surprising and interesting, to the wider publics. It supports a wider commitment to bring a range of views and voices in and on “Africa,” some of who are just emerging, all of whose insights are fresh and challenging. Grouping twelve articles in three sections of this book permits a new dialogue to emerge around the key themes of cultural politics, political economies and grammars of protest. Their intersection here provides a sharp spotlight on some of the seams, knots, and contestations of varied “matters” of import for many Africans in the twenty-first century.
As a verb, the authors contribute to teasing out the varied ways “Africa” is increasingly important in economies, politics, and daily lives for many outside of the continent of Africa even if, perversely, there is a deeper sense of abjection, of rejection by their governments and corporations and deep neglect by those in the Global North and international institutions, by more and more within different parts of Africa.
In its nounal form, the book’s chapters trace some of the forms, objects, and lives of differently constituted groups, polities and communities within African and its diasporas. The Africa matters here range from fashion to literature, entrepreneurs to monetary policy, regional administrative bodies to feminist movements, cellphones to cinema, xenophobic violence to political activism.
The first section of the book explores different dimensions of cultural politics, some of the symbolic significations and sentiments that help motivate, rationalize, dissemble, and constitute the debates, and socialities from the murmurings and rumours careening down proverbial radio trottoir to the boardrooms of banks, from state prisons to international development donor workshops.
This is followed by a section that examines the weight of political economy, the political formations, the power dynamics, and the economic drives and inequalities constituting many of the valuations of the “worth” of African matters for differently positions actors, companies, policy-makers, and opinion-shapers.
While the chapters in the previous two sections show Africans on the continent or the diaspora generating cultural forms for various audiences on the scale of the person or the globe, engaging in debates, carrying out entrepreneurship, engaged in bureaucratic maneuverings, avoiding terror, and the like, the chapters in this final section address specific politic actions. Attending to the specific grammars of protest in particular historical moments, they show how different Africans are generating specific confrontations with power, with specific examples coming from Kenya and from South Africa.
- Blair Rutherford and Pius Adesanmi
Introduction - Wendy Thompson Taiwo
Two Cities: Guangzhou / Lagos - Nduka Otiono
Catherine Acholonu (1951- 2014): The Female Writer as a Goddess - Suvi Lensu
Filming Home, Plurality of Identity, Belonging and Homing in Transnational African Cinema: A Case Study of the Films Restless Wandering, The Place in Between, and That’s My Face - Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin
“Spare Tires,” “Second Fiddle,” and “Prostitutes”?: Interrogating Discourses about Women and Politics in Nigeria - Elizabeth Cobbett
The South African Reserve Bank and the telling of monetary stories - Jessica Evans
The neoliberal turn in the SADC: Regional integration and disintegration - Nadège Compaore
Indian Hair, the After-Temple-Life: Class, Gender and Race Representations of the African American Woman in the Human Hair Industry - Wallace Chuma
The Role of Radio and Mobile Phones in Conflict Situations: The Case of the 2008 Zimbabwe Elections and Xenophobic Attacks in Cape Town - Wangui Kimari and Jacob Rasmussen
“Setting the agenda for our leaders from under a tree”: The People’s Parliament in Nairobi - Gacheke Gachihi
Politics Across Boundaries: Pan-Africanism: Seeds for African unity - Sinmi Akin-Aina
Beyond an Epistemology of Bread, Butter, Culture and Power: Mapping the African Feminist Movement - Stephanie Urdang
The Story of Cape Town’s Two Marches: Personal Reflections on Going Home
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.9.2019 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft |
Schlagworte | Africa • Africa literature • African diasporas • Gender • Political Economy • Social Movements • State Formation |
ISBN-10 | 1-988832-32-2 / 1988832322 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-988832-32-6 / 9781988832326 |
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