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{"title":"Performing the News: Yorùbá Oral Traditions on the Radio","authors":"Samuel K. Adesubokan","doi":"10.1080/13696815.2023.2264225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2264225","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Cultural Studies","volume":"15 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138589440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Limits of Governmentality: Call-in Radio and the Subversion of Neoliberal Evangelism in Zambia","authors":"Alastair Fraser","doi":"10.1080/13696815.2023.2283179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2283179","url":null,"abstract":"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 broadcasting such debates can raise awareness, amplify the voices of the poor, and facilitate development and better governance; they now fund a large share of interactive shows in some countries. Critics of such participatory initiatives typically accept that they have powerful e ff ects but worry that debates among citizens are deployed as a technology of “ governmentality ” , producing forms of popular subjectivity compatible with elitist economic systems and technocratic political regimes. This article argues that instrumentalising political debate is harder than either side assumes, and that the consequences of these shows are mainly unintended. It develops an in-depth case of a Zambian call-in radio programme, “ Let ’ s Be Responsible Citizens ” , emphasising the ability of the show ’ s audience, and its host, to subvert the programme ’ s surveillance and governmentality agenda, and to insist that the key responsibilities of citizens are to criticise, rather than adapt to, policies and systems of governance that do not meet their needs.","PeriodicalId":45196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Cultural Studies","volume":"140 42","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139240292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Language, Authenticity, and Hiplife Music in Accra","authors":"Nii Kotei Nikoi","doi":"10.1080/13696815.2023.2274846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2274846","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis 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”. Recently, language and global marketability have become a focus of debate in the Ghanaian entertainment industry. Here, indigenization becomes central to how some Ghanaian performers want their music and identity to circulate globally. I argue that the global music industry can be regarded as an authenticating mechanism legitimizing musics in a way that can define the horizons of musical possibility in local contexts.ABSTRACT IN GHANAIAN PIDGINDe article dey examine how the indigenization of language for hiplife dey become marker of authenticity, wey at de same time e be transnational commodification project to “sell our culture”. Recently, language den global marketability come turn focus of debate for the Ghanaian entertainment industry. For here, indigenization dey become central to de way Ghanaian artists dey want make dema music then identity go international. I dey argue say de global music industry be some authenticating mechanism wey e dey legitimize local music by de way e dey determine what be musically possible.KEYWORDS: LanguageauthenticityhiplifeAfrican hip-hop AcknowledgmentsThanks to Ghanaian multimedia artist moshood for help with the translation of the Ghanaian pidgin abstract.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Personal communication, 12 June 2015.2 “Living the Hiplife,” Jesse Shipley, 19 January 2019, 27:20. Accessed October 15, 2022. https://vimeo.com/314152616.3 “Being an Artist in Ghana. The Harsh Realities – Ko-Jo Cue (#BehindTheMusic),” BeatPhreaks, 21 July 2017, 12:28. Accessed July 25, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BScQNOFpAB0.4 “Face to Face with Rapper and Musician, M.anifest,” CitiTube, 4 August 2020, 07:39. Accessed February 20, 2022. https://youtu.be/VhIo86mvHD0.5 See “Keshey: The New Slang Spreading Through High Schools in Kumasi.” https://www.myjoyonline.com/keshey-the-new-slang-spreading-through-high-schools-in-kumasi/.6 See “This is Kumerica.” https://youtu.be/OE0JAvcaBig?si=x_sAACnkBVe6meVU.7 Personal communication, 29 September 2017.8 Personal communication, 21 November 2017.9 Ibid.10 Personal communication, 21 November 2017.11 Personal communication, 21 November 2017.12 Personal communication, 5 January 2018.13 Ibid.14 I am grateful to Sionne Neely for this. In her performance at Brazil House, she reminded me of how the body is an “archive.”15 See “Accra reclaims hip hop.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3241007.stm.16 “CNN Goes on a Drive with M.anifest and Talk Speaking ‘Big English’ & More,” 21 July 2021, 1:26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRuaAG7ENlk.17 “Eno Barony Best Female Rapper in Ghana freestyles on Zylofon fm,” Oscar Asaah, 12 October 2020, 1:54. Accessed August 11, 2023. https://youtu.be/wcOPUwpooZ8.18 Ibid., 1:59.19 “HHAP Episode 17: ","PeriodicalId":45196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Cultural Studies","volume":"42 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134900801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́: A Yorùbá Book Club and Its Decolonial Project","authors":"Ọlájídé Michael Salawu","doi":"10.1080/13696815.2023.2267005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2267005","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis 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. The case study is the Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́ group, a Yorùbá book club, and their associational life, which began on the Zoom platform in 2020 and later migrated to Twitter in 2021. The argument draws inspiration from the work of Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́, who conceptualises epistemic decolonisation of language as foundational to all decolonial practices. The digital reading practices of Àtẹ́lẹwọ́ book club enable a necessary disruption to literary experience in Nigeria, which is still largely dominated by Anglophone literary legacies. This book club develops a model for readers to participate in decolonial processes, and opens a path for social and cultural development in Nigeria.ABSTRACT IN YORÙBÁÌwádìí yìí pèsè àlàyé àti àgbéyẹ̀wò ìtàn àṣà ẹgbẹ́ òǹkàwé lítírésọ̀ ní orílẹ̀ Nàìjíríà, láti ṣe àfihàn ọ̀nà bí àjogúnbá àṣà gẹ̀ẹ́sì ti pa ipò ìwé kíkà lítírésọ̀ tí a kọ ní èdè Yorùbá padà. Fún àpẹẹrẹ ìṣẹ̀lẹ̀ yìí, ìwádìí yìí wo Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́, tí ó jẹ́ ẹgbẹ́ òǹkàwé Yorùbá àti ìtẹ̀síwájú àṣà, ní orí ayélujára tí Zoom láti 2020, títí dìgbà tí wọ́n dé sí orí Twitter ní 2021. Kókó ìwádìí yìí gba ìmísí nínú àfojúsùn Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́ tí ó ṣe àlàyé wípé ìpìlẹ̀ òmìnira lọ́wọ́ àṣà òkèèrè bẹ̀rẹ̀ láti inú èdè tiwa-n-tiwa. Kíka ìwé tí Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́ ṣe lórí díjítà (ayélujára) sì jẹ́ ohun pàtàkì láti rí ìyípadà nínú ìwé kíkà lórí díjítà eléyìí tí ó kún fún iwé tí a kọ láti ìha ti èdè gẹ̀ẹ́sì. Àgbékalẹ̀ ìwé kíkà láti ọwọ́ ẹgbẹ́ yìí jẹ ìtanijí fún òmìnira, ó sì ṣe ọ̀nà fún ìgbélárugẹ fún àṣà àti ìṣe ní orílẹ̀-ẹ̀dẹ̀ Nàìjíríà eléyìí tí ìwádìí yìí ṣàlàyé.KEYWORDS: Nigerian book clubsẸgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́YorùbáDecolonial practiceKÓKÓ-ÀLÀYÉ: ẹgbẹ́ ònkàwéé Nàìjíríàẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́Yorùbáisẹ́ òmìnira Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 https://www.facebook.com/rasaq.m.gbolahan/posts/pfbid0cB9FYyAVaP7wmL3TNu1yWzhGoUGwEp628hHFrkR2PKpo3pduLmQmWyREXFUTeLJml2 https://www.facebook.com/rasaq.m.gbolahan/posts/pfbid0249b1xZyhWDFTmiwje4zRafqGe9ViugmMHVbgGfR9D4kJ9n9auE7uVohUYu5m2RMLl3 https://twitter.com/arojinle14 https://twitter.com/Sci_in_Yoruba5 https://twitter.com/Yorubaness6 https://twitter.com/ThinkYoruba_1st7 https://twitter.com/Sci_in_Yoruba/status/16880696692684390408 https://twitter.com/adebayoknl9 https://www.facebook.com/rasaq.m.gbolahan/posts/pfbid0249b1xZyhWDFTmiwje4zRafqGe9ViugmMHVbgGfR9D4kJ9n9auE7uVohUYu5m2RMLl10 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=874045496370437&set=pcb.87404557303709611 https://x.com/egbeatelewo/status/1260908979179446273?s=46&t=SufswNVUHa3RpziCSMKKVQ12 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=917610802013906&set=pcb.91761081868057113 https://twitter.com/fitnesscoach_ng14 https://twitter.com/TosinGbogi15 https://x.com/egbeatelewo/status/1267104723267657728?s=46&t=SufswNVUHa3RpziCSMKKVQ (English translation by the author","PeriodicalId":45196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Cultural Studies","volume":" 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135286543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Radio and Music Listening Practices in Colonial Mozambique: The Goan Experience","authors":"Catarina Valdigem","doi":"10.1080/13696815.2023.2269862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2269862","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn 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 Mozambique. Apart from relying on archival research and interviews with radio professionals and other relevant informants, I also draw on 11 in-depth interviews with Portuguese and Mozambicans of Goan origin who have lived in colonial Mozambique for ten or more years, both men and women. Alongside the biographical method, I also examine my interlocutors’ relationship with several forms of media to investigate their past practices of radio reception and music listening. I articulate Nick Couldry’s framework of media as practice with Elizabeth Bird’s approach to the historical audience to understand my interlocutors’ memories of radio and sound reception as part of a broader set of social and cultural practices through which their imperial identities are reconstructed. The research results suggest that my interlocutors’ past radio and music listening practices contributed to both reproducing and discontinuing their parents’ socio-cultural practices brought with them when they migrated from Goa to Mozambique. Additionally, such practices enabled the construction of different ambivalent forms of Goan-ness in colonial Mozambique, hence across different spaces of the empire.ABSTRACT IN PORTUGUESENeste artigo, exploro o papel das práticas de escuta da rádio e da música na re-significação das identidades imperiais da população de origem goesa, nascida ou migrada para o Moçambique colonial durante o século XX. Baseio-me em pesquisa de arquivo e entrevistas em profundidade com alguns profissionais da rádio e outros participantes privilegiados, bem como em dados de 11 entrevistas biográficas com portugueses/as e moçambicanos/as de origem goesa, nascidos/as ou residentes no Moçambique colonial durante cerca de 10 ou mais anos, homens e mulheres. No âmbito da abordagem biográfica, analiso a relação dos/as meus/minhas interlocutores/as com diferentes média sonoros para investigar as suas práticas de receção da rádio e da música. Neste sentido, articulo a abordagem de Nick Couldry dos média enquanto prática, com a proposta de Elizabeth Bird da audiência histórica, de modo a compreender as memórias da rádio e da receção do som enquanto parte integrante de um amplo conjunto de práticas sociais e culturais através das quais as identidades imperiais se reconstroem. Os resultados da pesquisa sugerem que as práticas de escuta da rádio e música contribuíram para que os/as entrevistados/as reproduzissem mas também rompessem com as práticas socioculturais dos seus pais, as quais não deixaram de ser igualmente reconfiguradas na migração de Goa para Moçambique. Além de tudo, tais práticas facilitaram a construção de variadas formas ambivalentes de Goanidade particulares ao caso moçambicano.KEYWORDS: Radio and music receptionmemories of media practicecolonial MozambiqueG","PeriodicalId":45196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Cultural Studies","volume":"10 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135589463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Yorùbá Concepts of <i>Ìgbàgbọ́</i> and <i>Ìmọ̀</i> : Understanding Human and Nonhuman Species Interactions","authors":"Adewale O. Owoseni","doi":"10.1080/13696815.2023.2267031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2267031","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThere 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 example, the Yorùbá concepts of Ìgbàgbọ́ and Ìmọ̀, and explores their relevance for contemporary global discourses on sustainability that extend beyond the context of one local community. The article argues that the myths, mysteries, proverbs, common sayings and beliefs circulated about human and nonhuman species within Yorùbá communities (classified as Ìgbàgbọ́) reinforce the relevance of the global agenda for a sustainable future for all. The article shows that the encoded ideas in the Yorùbá myths, mysteries, proverbs and other narrative forms on human and nonhuman species complement the extant philosophical and ecological thoughts in global scholarship. This complementarity speaks to the importance of collaborative efforts for the mitigation of an undesirable future for human and nonhuman species and thus is of relevance for the agenda of a sustainable future grounded in a non-discriminatory global partnership.ABSTRACT IN YORÙBÁIs̩é̩ akadá kan tí ó ń dágbàsókè, tí ó ń s̩e àfihàn ìtàn, ohun ìjìnlè̩, àwo̩n ìso̩ tó wó̩ pò̩ àti ìgbàgbó̩ tó ń s̩e ìrànwó̩ fún ìdàgbàsókè ìdúrósinsin o̩jó̩ iwájú fún ènìyàn àti ohun tí kìí s̩e ènìyàn wa. Àpilè̩ko̩ yìí mú àpe̩e̩re̩ irú rè̩, ìwòye Yorùbá nípa ìgbàgbó̩ àti ìmò̩, ó sì s̩e àyẹ̀wò ìjìnlè̩ nípa bí èyí ṣe bá àjo̩so̩ àkókò bágbàmu ní àgbáyé lórí ìmúdúró sinsin tí ó tàn ko̩já ìjo̩ba ìbílè̩ mu. Àpilè̩ko̩ yìí jé̩ kí ó di mímò̩ pé àwo̩n ìtàn, ohun ìjìnlè̩, òwe, ìpèdè tí ó wó̩pò̩ àti ìgbàgbó̩ tí ó tàn ká láàárín àwùjo̩ Yorùbá nípa è̩dá ènìyàn àti ohun tí kì í s̩e ènìyàn (tí a yà só̩tò̩ gé̩gé̩ bi ìgbàgbó̩) mú agbára wá fún ètò tí ó ní ìtumò̩ ní àgbáyé fún ìmúdúró sinsin o̩jó̩ iwájú ohun gbogbo. Àpilè̩ko̩ yìí fihàn pe ò̩rò̩ alárokò inú ̀itàn Yorùbá, ohun ìjìnlè̩, òwe àti àwo̩n o̩nà alòhun nípa è̩dá ènìyàn àti ohun tí kì í s̩e ènìyàn kó̩wò̩rin pò̩ pè̩lú àwo̩n èrò àwùjo̩ nínú è̩kó̩ àgbáyé. Ìbás̩epò̩ yìí sò̩rò̩ nípa pàtàkì ìfo̩wó̩sowó̩pò̩ fún àtúns̩e ìgbé ayé fún è̩dá ènìyàn àti ohun ti kì í s̩e ènìyàn, èyí sì wà ní ìbámu pè̩lú ètò ìmúdúró sinsin o̩jó̩ iwajú àgbáyé tí kò si e̩lé̩yàmè̩yà.KEYWORDS: Indigenous knowledgeÌgbàgbọ́-Ìmọ̀human and nonhuman speciesenvironmentsustainable futureYorùbáÀWO̩N KÓKÓ Ò̩RÒ̩ (NI YORÙBÁ): Ìmò̩ ìbílè̩Ìgbàgbó̩-Ìmò̩È̩dá Ènìyàn àti E̩ni tí kì í s̩e ÈnìyànAgbègbèO̩jó̩ Iwájú tó dúró sinsinYorùbá Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":45196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Cultural Studies","volume":"79 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135270738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sonic Sensibility: Reading the Soundscape in Zimbabwean Diasporic Literary Works","authors":"Tembi Charles","doi":"10.1080/13696815.2023.2262937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2262937","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTRepresentations 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 literary criticism, too, has often privileged the visual, the ocular, and the spectacle. In this article, I focus on a different sensory dimension: the literary representation of sound. I show how sound and soundscapes, as represented in selected literary works, can illuminate everyday aspects of migratory experiences. I focus on aurality, arguing that listening provides a new methodology for reading and interpreting migrant fiction about the lived experiences of Black Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa. Building on theories of the soundscape, I examine how literary representations of migrant listening practices are deployed to comment on lived experiences, and how migrant literary characters’ encounters with other migrants illuminate the layered dimensions of forced migration. I argue that a sound-focused analysis of literary works, rather than a focus on the representation of visual spectacle and description, can give readers access to the sense of rootlessness experienced by migrants. Such an aural approach demonstrates that literary and creative works are useful archives of subverted and denied claims of belonging premised on ancestry and geography.Abstract in isiNdebeleIndlela abantu abamnyama belizwe leZimbabwe abatshengiswa ngayo ezincwadini zemfundo lasezindabeni eSouth Africa, zitshengisa icele elilodwa elikhuluma ngokuhlukunyezwa lokubulawa okungajwayelekanga okuqondiswe kubo njenge zizalwane zokuza. Imibhalo yase Southern Africa ithanda ukuqakathekisa okubonakalayo lokumangalisayo. Kulo umbhalo ngikhethe ukuthi ngigxile kokuhlukileyo emibhalweni njenga mazwi lemisindo. Ngitshengisa ukuthi imisindo lakho konke okuhambisana lemisindo ngendlela okubekwa ngayo emibhalweni yezifundo kungancenda ukukhanyisa ukubana izizwalane zaseZimbabwe zihlezi njani ngemihla njengabantu bokuza. Ngigxila kakhulu ekusebenziseni ukuzwa. Impikiso yami ithi ukulalela kungeyinye indlela engasetshenziswa ekufundeni lokutolika imibhalo ngabantu abamnyama beZimbabwe abangabahlali bokuza eSouth Africa. Ngisebenzisa imibono eyaziwayo ngemisindo, ngihlolisisa ukuthi imibhalo ngabantu bokuza isebenzisa njani izindlela zokulalela zabantu bokuza. Ngiyahlolisisa njalo ukuthi ezincwadini ukufanekiswa kwempilo zabantu bokuza uma behlangana labanye babo, kuyabonisa yini ubuhlungu bokuthuthela eSouth Africa bengazikhethelanga ukusuka eZimbabwe lapho abazalwa khona. Umbono wami uma ngokuthi ukucubungulula imibhalo sisebenzisa imisindo kungcono kulokugxila ngokusebenzisa izibonakaliso lemimangaliso ngoba kuvumela abafundi ukuthi babe lombono ongcono ngokuzwisisa ukuthi abantu bokuza bakuzwa njani ukuswelakala kwempande yemvelaphi yabo. Lokhu kutshengisa ukuthi imisebenzi yemibhalo leminye enje ngokubumba, ukudweba, elandisa imbali zabantu zindlela eziqakathekileyo zokuwondla ","PeriodicalId":45196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Cultural Studies","volume":"45 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135885048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Looking at Listening: Gender and Race in Commercial Advertising for Radio Sets in Southern Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s","authors":"Peter Brooke","doi":"10.1080/13696815.2023.2262940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2262940","url":null,"abstract":"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 1970s when most people bought their first radio sets. Advertisements for radios carried by the press offer the most prominent examples of this iconography. In South Africa, Rhodesia and Zambia, radio advertisements developed a distinctive aesthetic that blended global and local influences and framed the relationship between the new technology and society. Although the radio set was presented as part of a forward-looking, ostensibly inclusive vision of modernity, sales strategies also served to associate radio with whiteness and masculinity by looking backwards to the racial and gendered hierarchies of the colonial past. The homogeneity of advertising on both sides of the liberation divide demonstrates the pervasive cultural influence of settler colonialism both before and after formal decolonisation.","PeriodicalId":45196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Cultural Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Re-centring the Mothers of Rwanda’s Abducted “Métis” Children","authors":"Alice Urusaro Uwagaga Karekezi, Nicki Hitchcott","doi":"10.1080/13696815.2023.2262936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2262936","url":null,"abstract":"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 in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. Known as the “métis”, the children were rarely acknowledged by their white European fathers. The apology took place against a backdrop of increasing calls for accountability for colonial crimes as well as a small amount of emerging research on the métis’ experiences. Yet, what is striking in both public discourse and academic scholarship is the lack of attention paid to the mothers of these children. Starting with a discussion of Kazungu, le métis, an autobiographical docudrama by Rwandan-born filmmaker Georges Kamanayo Gengoux, and moving through an analysis of Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s recent novel Consolée, this article uses a decolonial feminist approach to suggest that, although the missing mothers’ voices have been silenced by colonial history, creative works by Rwandans can offer new spaces for repositioning the mothers at the centre of their own history.","PeriodicalId":45196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Cultural Studies","volume":"440 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135435697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Voicing Afro-Modernity: How Black Atlantic Audiobooks Speak Back","authors":"Reginold A. Royston, Vincent R. Ogoti","doi":"10.1080/13696815.2023.2270429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2270429","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT 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 can reconsider the importance of the “talking book” as a key form of oral literature. In this article, we explore the audiobooks of Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing – two key pieces of Black Atlantic literature in which the aesthetics of oral literature are deeply embedded and come alive as forms of new orality. We offer a method of “close listening”, drawing on the tactics of reading in sonic literary studies, and suggest through engagement with the work of scholars such as Ato Quayson, Tsitsi Jaji and others an interdiscursive approach toward “binaural” voices in African and Afrodescendant cultural production.","PeriodicalId":45196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Cultural Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"392 - 407"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}