| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 203 pages) : illustrations |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Theorising image: a relational approach -- Constructing images of Africa: from troubled pan-African media to sprawling Nollywood -- International news and the image of Africa: new storytellers, new narratives? -- 'Image management' in east Africa: Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and their donors -- Mirrors, mimicry and the spectre of a failed state: how the government of Ethiopia deploys image -- Images of a traditional authority: the case of Ker Kwaro Acholi in northern Uganda -- The war of images in the Ivoirian post-electoral crisis: the role of news and online blogs in constructing political personas -- Negotiating narratives of human rights abuses: image management in conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo -- Re-imagining Ethiopia: from campaign imagery to contemporary art -- Silent bodies and dissident vernaculars: representations of the body in South African fiction and film. |
| Summary |
This title challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Documentary photography -- Africa.
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Documentary photography. |
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Africa. |
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Photojournalism -- Political aspects -- Africa.
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Photojournalism -- Political aspects. |
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Photojournalism. |
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Africa -- In mass media.
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Africa -- Foreign public opinion.
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Africa -- Civilization.
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Civilization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Mudimbe, V. Y., 1941- writer of foreword.
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Gallagher, Julia (Lecturer in international relations), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Images of Africa. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015 9780719091469 (DLC) 2015452686 (OCoLC)894938064 |
| ISBN |
9780719098093 (electronic book) |
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0719098092 (electronic book) |
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9781781708491 |
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1781708495 |
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9780719091469 |
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0719091462 |
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