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

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series African expressive cultures
African expressive cultures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 / Olufémi Taiwo -- Soccer and the state: the politics and morality of daily life / Michael G. Schatzberg -- 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 -- Sudanese nation and its fragments: Tayeb Salih's literary archaeology / Sofia Samatar -- 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.
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Subject Art and state -- Africa.
Art and state.
Africa.
Africa -- Cultural policy.
Cultural policy.
Africa -- Civilization -- 21st century.
Civilization.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Africa -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Olaniyan, Tejumola, editor, author.
Other Form: Print version: State and culture in postcolonial Africa. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2017 9780253029713 (DLC) 2017022483
ISBN 9780253030177 (electronic book)
025303017X (electronic book)
9780253029713 (hardcover alkaline paper)