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Mimicry of European Football Commentary: Arap Uria’s Comic Lip-Sync Impressions in Kenyan Social Media Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 James Odhiambo Ogone
The popularity of football in Africa is evident in the widespread viewership of televised top world league matches across the continent. Entertaining as they are to African fans, the broadcast imag...
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The Corporation as Imperialist and Antagonist in Contemporary African Fiction Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Michael K. Walonen
More powerful and influential than some smaller nations, multinational corporations exert a tremendous influence on the functioning of contemporary global society. From as far back as the dawn of c...
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When Men Become Women: Parody and Satire in Khady Touré's Film Échange Inégal: Goor Dongue Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Marame Gueye
In contemporary Senegal, gender violence is pervasive, and it has become challenging to speak about it. Female suffering is normalized and viewed as part of womanhood. Language and Islam are often ...
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Zambia’s Support for the African National Congress’s Radio Freedom in Lusaka, 1967–1992 Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi, Kasonde Thomas Mukonde
This article explores the contribution Zambia made to the liberation struggle in South Africa by hosting the ANC’s Radio Freedom in Lusaka. It relies on a combination of archival evidence (audio an...
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Cultural Pluralisms: Neo-Nollywood and Biyi Bandele’s Ẹlẹ́ṣin Ọba (2022) Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Rejoice Abutsa
In Biyi Bandele’s last feature, Ẹlẹ́ṣin Ọba (2022), adapted from Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman, Bandele registers an awareness for the multiple film cultures that have shaped filmmak...
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Radio in Africa: Past and Present Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Peter Brooke
Published in Journal of African Cultural Studies (Vol. 36, No. 1, 2024)
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From “Sin Street” to “Education Street”: Music, Politics and Transgression in Maputo’s Red-Light District, Mozambique (c.1960–86) Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Pedro A. Mendes, Marco Roque de Freitas
This article analyses the cultural practices developed within a particular street in Mozambique, Rua Araújo, once the symbol of colonial nightlife, transgression, pleasures and excesses, but rename...
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Beyond the Static: Women, Voice and Radio Zulu in the 1970s and 1980s Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Liz Gunner
The article argues that radio – in particular, the African-language station initially known as Radio Bantu, and from 1973 as Radio Zulu – became a space that gave women access to a powerful acousti...
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Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́: A Yorùbá Book Club and Its Decolonial Project Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Ọlájídé Michael Salawu
This article provides a cultural history of book clubs in Nigeria and situates this reading tradition within the context of Anglophone colonial legacies and contemporary Yorùbá language politics. T...
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Voicing Afro-Modernity: How Black Atlantic Audiobooks Speak Back Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Reginold A. Royston, Vincent R. Ogoti
With the growing prevalence of audiobooks and the growth of the recorded spoken-word industry worldwide, this article highlights the ways in which sound studies scholars and literary critics alike ...
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Sound Studies from Africa Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Scott Newman, Susanna L. Sacks
Published in Journal of African Cultural Studies (Vol. 35, No. 4, 2023)
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Vital Atmospherics: Sonic City-Making in Africa Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Joella Bitter
Recent concern for noise in African cities has placed the sonic environment at the center of questions of cityness. This article explores the broadcast of loud music as part of a vital atmospheric ...
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Performing the News: Yorùbá Oral Traditions on the Radio Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Samuel K. Adesubokan
The Yorùbá language radio programme Kókó Inú Ìwé Ìròyìn, which translates as “Newspaper Headlines News”, began airing in 1999 and starts broadcasting at 6 am daily on the Lagos local languages radi...
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Listening for Religion in Lagos: Preliminary Reflections Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Vicki L. Brennan, Harrison Adeniyi, Titilayo Tajudeen
For three weeks in January and February 2021, a team of researchers ventured into the streets of Lagos, Nigeria to document the relationships between sound, urban space and religious institutions a...
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Sonic Sensibility: Reading the Soundscape in Zimbabwean Diasporic Literary Works Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Tembi Charles
Representations of Zimbabwean migrants to South Africa, in scholarship as well as the media, have tended to focus on the often spectacular violence experienced by these migrants. Southern African l...
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Re-centring the Mothers of Rwanda’s Abducted “Métis” Children Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Alice Urusaro Uwagaga Karekezi, Nicki Hitchcott
In April 2019, the Belgian prime minister publicly apologised for the segregation, deportation and forced adoption of thousands of children born to mixed-race couples during Belgian colonial rule i...
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Foreign Bodies, Local Language: Voicing Foreignness in a Casablanca Dubbing Studio Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Kristin Gee Hickman
Soap operas have been shown to play a key role in the production of national publics. Yet what happens if the lifestyles and actors they feature are distinctly not national? This article examines t...
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The Limits of Governmentality: Call-in Radio and the Subversion of Neoliberal Evangelism in Zambia Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Alastair Fraser
The spread of mobile telephones in Africa has enabled a broad range of citizens to join live conversations on call-in radio shows. Both African governments and foreign aid agencies claim that broad...
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Language, Authenticity, and Hiplife Music in Accra Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Nii Kotei Nikoi
This article examines how the indigenization of language in hiplife becomes a marker of authenticity and, at the same time, a project of transnational commodification to “sell our culture”. Recentl...
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Radio and Music Listening Practices in Colonial Mozambique: The Goan Experience Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Catarina Valdigem
In this article, I explore the role of radio and music listening practices in re-signifying the imperial identities of the population of Goan origin, who were either born in or migrated to colonial...
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The Yorùbá Concepts of Ìgbàgbọ́ and Ìmọ̀: Understanding Human and Nonhuman Species Interactions Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Adewale O. Owoseni
There is a growing scholarship that shows how myths, mysteries, common sayings and beliefs aid the advancement of a sustainable future for human and nonhuman species. This article takes one such ex...
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Looking at Listening: Gender and Race in Commercial Advertising for Radio Sets in Southern Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Peter Brooke
This article takes a visual approach to the study of an aural medium. It argues that the radio set had a powerful visual presence in popular culture in Southern Africa between the 1950s and the 197...
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Elitist and Popular Ideological Forms in Selected Nigerian Campus Novels Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Kayode Gboyega Kofoworola
ABSTRACT In Nigeria, the university system and its campuses are relatively new, having only been in existence for about 70 years. Within this university system, there has always been a tension about whether its role is to reproduce elites (initially considered its role), or to change society for the better, which later became the expectation of society. The tensions between these two trends in thinking
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Nigerian University Dress Codes: Markers of Tradition, Morality and Aspiration Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Morolake Dairo
ABSTRACT This article attempts to give an overview of the fashion and dress cultures on Nigerian campuses. Through clothing, we see the various ways in which institutions and individuals engage with “tradition” and with an imagined professional future. The clothing rules on campuses also reveal the extent to which women are held responsible for sexual misconduct there. I show how the debates around
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Nigerian Campus Forms Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Carli Coetzee, Louisa Uchum Egbunike
Published in Journal of African Cultural Studies (Vol. 35, No. 3, 2023)
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Nigerian Universities’ Sexual Harassment Policies: Palliative or Provocative? Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Rosemary Oyinlola Popoola
ABSTRACT Sexual violence and sexual harassment have been perennial topics in higher education across the continent and beyond. In response to stories and scandals, including the 2019 “Sex for Grades: Undercover in West African Universities” documentary by the BBC’s Africa Eye series, Nigerian universities have instituted sexual harassment policies. This article draws on a feminist textual analysis
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Guiding Muslim Women in the University: The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria Women’s Programmes in Northern Nigeria Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Adeyemi Balogun
ABSTRACT This article discusses how the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) shapes the way of life of Muslim women in northern Nigeria’s higher educational institutions. The MSSN expects Muslim women to be symbols of piety, home builders and career professionals, and, in line with these objectives, it promotes an Islamic reform that emphasises Western education and the embodiment of prophetic
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“I Gats to Belong”: Decolonial Moments and the Politics of Belonging in Nollywood Campus Films Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Omotola Okunlola
ABSTRACT This article analyzes representations of the value of university education, as depicted in selected Nollywood films and television serials. I analyze Tunde Kelani’s film The Campus Queen in conversation with Funke Akindele’s television serial Jenifa’s Diary, drawing out in each of them the commentaries on higher education and its uses as well as limitations. In The Campus Queen, such moments
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There Was a Campus: Nostalgia, Memory and the Formation of University of Nigeria “Campus Kids” Online Communities Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Louisa Uchum Egbunike
ABSTRACT The ceremonial opening of the University of Nigeria on 7 October 1960 formed part of Nigeria’s independence celebrations, linking the destiny of the institution to the nation. Seven years later, the outbreak of the Nigeria–Biafra war (1967–70) instigated a decoupling. This article reads the war as a turning point in the history of the institution, and examines the post-war dynamics on campus
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“Shot-putting” and Other Dirty Secrets: Nigerian Students’ Everyday Struggles Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Kolawole Charles Omotayo
ABSTRACT Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria is often named as the most beautiful university in Africa. The university was established in 1961, during the early days of Nigerian independence and during a time of great optimism when the newly established universities were seen as central to the project of a modern, independent country. Yet today, this same institution has overcrowded accommodation
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Revolutionary Mothering Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Serawit B. Debele
Published in Journal of African Cultural Studies (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2023)
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Kutuma Salamu on Public Service Radio and the Performance of Popular Culture: Voice of Kenya from the 1960s to the 1980s Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Maureen Amimo, Solomon Waliaula
ABSTRACT Radio is one of the mass media technologies that were readily absorbed in and adapted to the patterns of construction and integration of communities. Among non-elite Kenyans, radio was inserted into their performative practice of greetings through a quasi-interactive programme known as kutuma salamu, which literally translates as “sending greetings.” This article analyses the practices of
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Pentecostal Christianity and Traditional Religion in Nigerian Video Films by Edo-Language Filmmakers Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Edorodion Agbon Osa
ABSTRACT This article examines the representation of Pentecostal Christianity and African traditional religion in Edo-language (also known as Bini or Benin) video films. It discusses this in relation to English-language Nigerian religious video filmmakers’ demonisation of African traditional religion in their films. The article responds to Birgit Meyer’s work in her article “Religious Remediations:
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Desiring Queer Motherhood and Mothering Ourselves Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Serena O. Dankwa
ABSTRACT This essay is an open-ended, poetic reflection connecting findings from my ethnographic research on same-sex desiring women in southern Ghana with my own journey of becoming a queer mother in Switzerland. It suggests that desires for motherhood cannot be reduced to the wish for procreating or tapping into the power of extending our heteronormative lineages, but reflect feminist desires for
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Yeset Lij’s Tribute to the Praxis of Collective Mothering: Childhood in Derg’s Ethiopia Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Serawit B. Debele
ABSTRACT In this article, I deliberate on collective mothering as I knew it growing up where women raise children together. I foreground mothering as a repertoire of shared knowledge, wisdom and solidarity that opens up imaginations for transformative politics. I pay closer attention to the Amharic epithet yeset lij (child of a woman), to show the societal stereotypes around raising a child as an unwed
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From Guns and Steel to Germs: Malarial Detritus in New Sculptures by Gonçalo Mabunda Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Mehita Iqani
ABSTRACT This article analyses and theorises work by the celebrated Mozambican artist Gonçalo Mabunda, who is famed for his redeployment of scrap metal into striking sculptures. He is known for using various weapons components in his assemblages, as well as – more recently – industrial scrap items. This article considers the arrival of used, leftover and discarded items used in the Internal Residual
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The Ethnography of Surrogate Speech in a Foreign Language: The Case of the Timpani Drum Language among the Dagomba of Ghana Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Fusheini Angulu Hudu
ABSTRACT This article presents a study of the timpani drum beats and the akarima drummer among the Dagomba of Ghana, using analysis of audio and video recordings of drumming sessions and interviews with the drummers. Borrowed from the Asantes in the eighteenth century, the timpani transmits limited, oft-repeated messages in Akan, a language that neither the drummer nor his Dagomba patrons understand
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The World around the Mother as a Gift in African Folktales and Fountain of Radical Joy Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Dominica Dipio
ABSTRACT In this article, I analyse selected African folktales that foreground the role of mothers in the everyday. The purpose is to appreciate the cultural logic of their representation in relation to the other characters. In the folktales, family is defined around the mother. The father is either conspicuously absent or peripheral. The mother’s self-giving and love towards the family are often radical
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Rethinking Motherhood through Afrofeminism: Reading Jennifer Makumbi's The First Woman Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Dina Ligaga
ABSTRACT In this article, I read Jennifer Makumbi's novel The First Woman (2020), which I argue combines African feminism and indigenous knowledge to generate alternative narratives of motherhood in the absence of the main character's biological mother. I argue that Makumbi rethinks motherhood through an afrofeminist lens to complicate the idea of the ideal mother as self-sacrificing and sacred. In
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Introduction to Campus Forms Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Anne W. Gulick
Published in Journal of African Cultural Studies (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2023)
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Black Aesthetics and Deep Water: Fish-People, Mermaid Art and Slave Memory in South Africa Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Mapule Mohulatsi
ABSTRACT Mami Wata is a water spirit venerated across the Indian and Atlantic Ocean worlds. In South Africa, a water spirit who is a mermaid figure goes by many names and is either feared or revered for her other-wordly powers. This mermaid figure, I argue, functions as site of slavery memory as well as a reminder of the troubled relationship black and previously enslaved communities have with water
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Locus of Struggle: The African Campus and Contemporary Protest Forms Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Krystal Strong, Jimil Ataman
ABSTRACT In this article, we begin from the presupposition that the university campus – historically, in the popular imagination, and in any possible futures worth fighting for – is a terrain of struggle. Drawing from our ongoing study, which has documented and digitally mapped more than 700 campus protest events occurring over the past 20 years across Africa, we explore protest as a lens for interpreting
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Lyrical Renegades: Reframing Narratives of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Kenyan Urban Margins Through Hip-Hop Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Felix Mutunga Ndaka
ABSTRACT The outbreak of Covid-19 in Kenya saw a resurgence of state policing, violence and repression as the state sought ways of decisively containing the spread. This was accompanied by a discourse of “being at war” with a novel and invisible enemy. As a result, terms such as shutdown, lockdown, curfew and isolation were mobilised by state agents and organs not only to refer to the concerted efforts
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The Campus as War Zone: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, Post-Independence Civil War, and the African University Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Anne W. Gulick
ABSTRACT This article explores how a set of contemporary Anglophone African novels critically engage the relationship between universities and war. Dinaw Mengestu’s 2014 All Our Names, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2006 Half of a Yellow Sun, and Aminatta Forna’s 2010 The Memory of Love are war novels that chronicle the collapse of the postcolonial state in the face of military coups and authoritarian
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Campus Movements and Student Revolutionaries: Imagining Haile Selassie I University in Hiwot Teffera’s Memoir Tower in the Sky Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Luleadey Tadesse Worku
ABSTRACT The 1974 revolution in Ethiopia has been the topic of many histories and novels set during this period which have portrayed these events for readers beyond Ethiopia. Hiwot Teffera’s autobiographical text, Tower in the Sky, tells the story of student revolutionaries in the Ethiopian Student Movement (ESM) and the 1974 revolution that deposed Emperor Haile Selassie. The revolutionaries’ untold
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“That Is Still our Tradition but in a Modern Form, but it Still Tells our Story”: Transitions in Buildings in Northern Ghana Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Irene Appeaning Addo
ABSTRACT Traditional building practices, which are typically regarded as repositories of heritage and material culture, are undergoing significant transitions in northern Ghana. This transition is evident in the use of building materials other than locally accessible traditional materials. These transitions are driving creativity and innovation as households strive for continuity of tradition, while
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Spaces of Protest: Seydina Issa Sow's Campus Graphic Novel Sidy Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Mahriana Rofheart
ABSTRACT Seydina Issa Sow's comic Sidy (2019) depicts a young man from the countryside who travels to Dakar, Senegal to study law at Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD). When the eponymous character arrives, he is disappointed to find overcrowded dormitories and lecture halls. As students protest these conditions, Sidy's friend Abdou supports him and leads a fight against injustice. Although protest
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“fokkol graad vi jou nie” [Fuck All Degree for You]: Black Afrikaans Poets, Critical University Studies, and Transcripting the Afrikaans University Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Luan Staphorst
ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of #Rhodesmustfall and calls for the decolonisation of the South African academy, #Afrikaansmustfall arose specifically targeting the continued use of Afrikaans as a language of teaching and learning. This article investigates the ways in which young, Black Afrikaans speakers – the often invisible members of the Afrikaans community – are critiquing and reimagining the
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Do Fakes Exist? Trade and Consumption of Sex Enhancers in Harare's Avenues Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Ushehwedu Kufakurinani
ABSTRACT After the ban of over-the-counter sex enhancers in 2013 by the Medical Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ), the streets of the inner city area of Harare called The Avenues became a haven for illegal traders in sex enhancers. This article explores how products that are banned by the state acquire their own agencies. From the traders’ perspectives, the point of departure to understanding efficacy
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“Tuti is Losing its Uniqueness”: Genealogy Documentation of the Maḥas of Tuti Island and the (De)Construction of Belonging Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed
ABSTRACT Tuti Island is a river island located at the junction of the Blue and the White Nile in Greater Khartoum, the capital region of the Sudan. Through the process of documenting their genealogies, some of inhabitants of Tuti Island have constructed a historical narrative about the origins and early settlement of the island and of the Maḥas extended families who live there. For many of the Maḥas
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Evolutions, Transformations and Trends in Kalenjin Traditional Songs Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Charles Kipng’eno Rono
ABSTRACT Since the production of the earliest Kalenjin traditional albums in the 1920s, the community’s traditional songs have evolved and transformed. This article traces this historical process by considering how these songs developed from folk songs performed during Kambaget (sports competitions) and from the earliest compositions of Bekyibei arap Mosonik, Kipchamba arap Tapotuk and their contemporaries
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Re-Contextualising Breakdance Aesthetics: Performance, Performativity, and Re-Enaction of Breakdancing in Uganda Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Alfdaniels Mabingo
ABSTRACT Since its creation in the South Bronx in the 1970s, breakdance has proliferated worldwide. In the last three decades, urban youth in Uganda have reconfigured breakdance aesthetics to reflect their creative visions and imagination and in response to the local material conditions in Kampala city. This article examines how the youth have reconfigured, localised, and re-interpreted breakdance
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The Labor of the Living Dead Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Tobias Warner
ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of the labor of the living dead through readings of recent Senegalese films, novels, comics, and music videos in Wolof and French. The undead have been resurgent in cultural production for decades but these are not your average zombies: they do not inspire collective dread nor are they directed by opaque, outside forces. In Senegal, the focus has more often
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African Cultural Imaginaries and (Post-)Development Thought Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Martina Kopf
Published in Journal of African Cultural Studies (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2022)
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Malawians’ Foreign Film Dubbing, Film Pirating and Consumption as “Weapons of the Weak” Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Jiafang Li
ABSTRACT None of the multinational companies has ever released any film in Malawi – a so-called "fourth world” whose GDP per capita is fourth from the bottom in the world (as of 2018). However, global films are widely found there, including in remote areas. Based on detailed fieldwork materials collected in Malawi, this article discusses the topic of foreign film dubbing (pirating) and consumption
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Midwifery Narratives and Development Discourses Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Veronica Barnsley
ABSTRACT In this article I explore the intersection of literature and development via the figure of the midwife. This approach is prompted by the recognition that, despite their importance, midwives often remain on the margins of both development and global health research, and literary analysis. Making midwives the centre of attention allows us to encounter the range of biomedical processes and practices
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Stereotypes and the Ambiguities of Humour in Kenya: The Churchill Show Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Serah Kasembeli
ABSTRACT The Churchill Show is a weekly live and recorded comedy show, originally staged at the Carnivore Grounds in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, and later hosted in various parts of the country. The live recordings were disseminated on Kenya’s NTV television network and published on YouTube by Laugh Industry Limited and NTV Kenya. The Churchill Show’s theme song includes a reference to bringing Kenyans
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Being Muslim at the Intersection of Islam and Popular Cultures in Nigeria Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Musa Ibrahim
ABSTRACT “Being Muslim” is a complex identity formation process that involves negotiating what is considered “Islamic” or “non-Islamic” selves in various localized and globalized contexts. At the crossroad of Islam and popular culture, divergent Muslim cultural producers influence how contemporary Muslim cultures and identities are produced and negotiated in both normative and disruptive ways. Using
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Rethinking Agency in Kenyan Animal Conservations: Ng’ang’a Mbugua’s Terrorists of the Aberdare Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 James Wachira
ABSTRACT Species loss is a feature of the development intentions of post-colonial countries like Kenya. Kenya like other postcolonial regimes has often linked wildlife conservation with development agendas. The value of wildlife to post-development aims is evident in the approach taken by state-backed conservation efforts as well as in the language used. Thus, wildlife designates a category of animals
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Laughing off Ebola in Sierra Leone: Humor in Times of Crisis Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 1.145) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Laura S. Martin
ABSTRACT The West African Ebola epidemic of 2013 to 2016 resulted in a long-term state of emergency and dramatic changes to everyday life. Despite it being a challenging period, humor was still part of social interactions and exchanges. Periods of crisis can lend themselves well to humor due to the fact that both crisis and humor find their foundations in absurdity. This article seeks to build on existing