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“Sweet Like Honey”: Twa Photographers Reframing the Past, Present and Future in a Remote Rwandan Marginalised Community Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Zoë Norridge, Renée Akitelek Mboya
Nyabageni, a small village in north-west Rwanda, is home to a remote rural community of historically marginalised people, formerly known as Twa. Today the village is made up of both those who grew ...
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Urban Crime in the Lagos Traffic: An Ethnography at the Crossroads of Multiple Codes of Ethics Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Felix Oludare Ajiola
This article is an ethnographic investigation into hawking, pickpocketing, and other crimes perpetrated during traffic situations in contemporary Lagos. Scholarship on street hawking in Nigeria – L...
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Contemporary Conversations: Meet the Practitioners Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Msia Kibona Clark
Published in Journal of African Cultural Studies (Vol. 36, No. 3, 2024)
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The Culture of Language in Cape Town’s Hip-Hop Community Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Monishia Schoeman aka Eavesdrop or Mercury Metronome
Published in Journal of African Cultural Studies (Vol. 36, No. 3, 2024)
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Exploring the Language Debate in Hip-Hop in Kenya Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Lydia Owano Akwabi aka L-Ness Lioness, Miranda Rivers
Published in Journal of African Cultural Studies (Vol. 36, No. 3, 2024)
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The Politics of Language in Ugandan Hip-Hop Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Silas “Babaluku” Balabyekkubo, Yaw M. Asare
Published in Journal of African Cultural Studies (Vol. 36, No. 3, 2024)
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Language and Hip-Hop in Africa: A Tanzanian Perspective Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Hashim Rubanza, Amartey Laryea
Published in Journal of African Cultural Studies (Vol. 36, No. 3, 2024)
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Vernacular Verses: Language, Identity and African Hip-Hop Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Msia Kibona Clark
Published in Journal of African Cultural Studies (Vol. 36, No. 3, 2024)
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Youth, Associational Life and Civic Engagement in Northern Cameroon: Association des Jeunes Élèves et Étudiants de la Faada Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Baskouda S. K. Shelley
This article analyses the ways in which youths in Northern Cameroon have been able to access social citizenship. Tracing the nature of this access over an extended period – from the early 1990s to ...
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Edible Bodies? Conspicuous Consumption, Women’s Bodies and Postcolonial Masculinities in Fast-Food Advertisements in Zimbabwe Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Gibson Ncube
While existing scholarship has primarily focused on examining how women are often objectified and sexualised in fast-food marketing advertisements, this article shifts the focus to demonstrate how ...
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Contourner la censure à l’université par l’analyse d’un texte dramatique Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Romain Dédjinnaki Hounzandji
Pour contrôler les violentes manifestations estudiantines qui ont conduit à l’invalidation de l’année 2015-2016 à la faculté des lettres, arts et sciences humaines de l’université d’Abomey-Calavi e...
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Collective Creativity in the Lecture Hall: Key Issues, Participant Strategies and Aesthetic Challenges Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Fernand Nouwligbèto
Collective creativity (CC) in the context of a theatre production course at the Université d’Abomey-Calavi (Republic of Benin) brings together categories of people from diverse backgrounds who are ...
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Les formes indisciplinées du campus de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Ruth Bush, Bacary Sarr
Cet article explore les représentations et les expériences vécues de l'université Cheikh Anta Diop. L'UCAD abrite des connaissances « disciplinées » fondées sur des idées de développement national....
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Textualisation of Sexual Harassment on the Cameroonian University Campus: Moone Nda’a’s La révolte de Mbazoua et autres nouvelles Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Albert Jiatsa Jokeng
Fictional representations of African university campuses offer a rather dismal image of a world intended to train the intellectual elite of a rapidly developing continent. This is reflected in a st...
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Circumventing Censorship on the University Campus Through the Analysis of a Dramatic Text Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Romain Dédjinnaki Hounzandji
In 2016, Beninese police moved onto the university campus in Abomey-Calavi to control the violent student demonstrations which led to the invalidation of the 2015-16 academic year in the Faculté de...
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Créations collectives en amphi : enjeux, stratégies d’acteurs et défis esthétiques Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Fernand Nouwligbèto
La création collective dans le cadre d’un cours de « mise en scène » à l’université d’Abomey-Calavi (République du Bénin) fait se croiser des catégories de personnes ayant des habitus différents et...
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L’enseignement artistique et culturel dans la formation professionnelle des universités publiques au Bénin : de la marginalisation à la réintégration progressive Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Opêoluwa Blandine Agbaka
L’éducation artistique et culturelle a longtemps été marginalisée dans les offres de formation professionnelle des universités publiques du Bénin. Les aspirants aux carrières artistiques et culture...
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Campus et création en Côte d’Ivoire : enjeux et stratégies d’une esthétique du camouflage dans le zouglou Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Marie-Clémence Adom
L’histoire et la genèse des productions l’auront montré, l’ensemble des textes zouglou, considérés en relation avec leurs conditions de production, s’adressent à un cercle fermé et, en termes de co...
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Campus and Creation in Côte d’Ivoire: Issues and Strategies for an Aesthetic of Camouflage in Zouglou Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Marie-Clémence Adom
The history and origin of zouglou creations show that when texts are considered together as a group and in relation to the conditions of their production, they require the listener or reader to be ...
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Textualisation du harcèlement sexuel dans le campus universitaire camerounais : une analyse à partir de La révolte de Mbazoua de Moone Nda’a Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Albert Jiatsa Jokeng
Les représentations du campus universitaire africain dans les fictions offrent un visage peu reluisant de cet univers censé former l’élite intellectuelle d’un continent en plein développement. C’es...
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The Undisciplined Campus Forms of Université Cheikh Anta Diop Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Ruth Bush, Bacary Sarr
This article explores representations and lived experience of the Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), the largest public university in Senegal. While UCAD houses “disciplined” knowledges grounded i...
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Encountering Mudi Yahaya’s Nina Fischer-Stephan’s Respectful Gaze in Lagos Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 James Yékú
Mudi Yahaya’s film Nina Fischer-Stephan’s Respectful Gaze (2022) is a reconstruction of Nigerian history presented through a meta-representational forcefield of images. The film is a documentary wo...
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Ears to the Ground: Realness, Decolonial Meta-Rap, and the Language Debate in Nigerian Hip-Hop Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Tosin Gbogi
Constantly shifting like a floating signifier, the interpretive life of “realness” has meant different things to global Hip-Hop adherents: staying true to oneself; reppin’ one’s hood; production st...
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Herding Games and Socialisation into Pastoral Linguacultural Practices Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Sara Petrollino
“Herding games” are mimicry games played by children in several East African pastoralist societies. This article presents an ethnographic account of the herding game among the Hamar agro-pastoralis...
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Cinema Narration as Oral Performance: DJ Afro and East African Media Practices Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Solomon Waliaula
This article examines cinema narration in Kenya, a practice that involves artists known as DJs working with audiences in specific socio-cultural contexts. This study uses ethnographic methods to an...
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Ethiopian Reggae Ambassadors, Rastafari, and the Promotion of Transatlantic Pan-African Solidarity Journal of African Cultural Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 David Aarons
Reggae music, a genre that was created in Jamaica in the late 1960s, has become popular across the globe for promoting positive representations of Ethiopia and Africa due to reggae’s connections wi...
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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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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 0.9) 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