Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2265838
Vicki L. Brennan, Harrison Adeniyi, Titilayo Tajudeen
ABSTRACT 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 and practices. In this article we present an overview of the conceptual issues that shaped our investigation into sound, including questions of noise, listening and religion. We also offer preliminary reflections on what we heard, as well as share samples of some of the sounds we recorded. Finally, we offer thoughts about future iterations of this project and reflect on how projects such as ours contribute to the development of African sound studies.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2266378
Joella Bitter
ABSTRACT 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 which makes the city and sustains everyday life in Gulu, Uganda. I consider everyday Acoli sound concepts wo (noise) and dwan matek (loud sound) with and against concepts of “noise” as it is enacted by environmental regulations concerned with the criminalization of loudness. In so doing, this work brings together sonically rich accounts of African cities and the social density of African sonic worlds with attention to a global South “politics of loudness” and Afrodiasporic sonic geographies. Building from a series of ethnographic encounters, and written in experimental form, this work challenges racialized assumptions embedded in efforts to regulate noise, exploring instead how loud sound generates possibilities for social connection.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2262945
Scott Newman, Susanna L. Sacks
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Pub Date : 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2237913
Kristin Gee Hickman
ABSTRACTSoap 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 the role of foreign (Mexican, Turkish, Brazilian) soap operas in producing new national imaginations in Morocco. Through an ethnography of Plug-In studios, the Casablanca recording studio where these soap operas are dubbed in colloquial Moroccan Arabic (Darija), I explore the discomfort experienced by studio employees (translators, voice actors, sound engineers) when laminating this highly local language onto visibly foreign bodies. Through an analysis of discussions between employees, I show how they negotiate this discomfort by bifurcating the national language into two registers: a neutral register that could plausibly be spoken by anybody; and a “real” register that indexes ethnic Moroccanness. This bifurcation, I argue, produces new possibilities for imagining foreigners as part of the Moroccan nation, while simultaneously keeping them at arm’s length.أجسام أجنبية، لغة محلية: صياغة أصوات أجنبية في استوديو للدبلجة بالدار البيضاءالمسلسلات الدرامية تلعب دورًا رئيسيًا في إنتاج الجمهور الوطني . ولكن ماذا يحدث عندما تكون أنماط الحياة والممثلين التي تتميز بها هاته المسلسلات ليست وطنية؟ يبحث هذا المقال عن دور المسلسلات الأجنبية (المكسيكية والتركية والبرازيلية) في إنتاج مخيلات وطنية جديدة في المغرب . عبر دراسة إثنوغرافية لأستوديو پلوگ إن، استوديو للتسجيل بالدار البيضاء حيث يتم دبلجة هذه المسلسلات من لغتها الأصلية إلى اللغة المغربية العامية (الدارجة)، أستكشف الانزعاج الذي يعاني منه موظفو الاستوديو (المترجمون والمدبلجون ومهندسو الصوت ) عند تغليف هذه الأجسام الأجنبية باللغة المحلية . عبر تحليل المناقشات بين موظفي الاستوديو، أظهر كيف يتعاملون مع هذا الانزعاج من خلال تقسيم اللغة الوطنية إلى سجلين : سجل محايد يمكن أن يتكلم به أي شخص وأي جسد، وسجل “حقيقي ” يشير إلى الهوية المغربية القحة . أجادل أن هذا التقسيم ينتج إمكانيات جديدة لتخيل الأجانب كجزء من الوطن المغربي، مع إبقاء مسافة بينهم وبين المغاربة .KEYWORDS: MoroccodubbinglanguagevoicetelevisionforeignnessArabic : المغربالدبلجةلغةصوتالتلفزةالأجنبيةالعربية AcknowledgmentsThis article benefitted immensely from discussions at the 2016 Moroccan Studies Symposium in Rabat and the “Race, Blackness, and Africa” panel at the 2018 annual meeting of the African Studies Association. I would also like to extend a special thank you to Mounir Ouzine for answering all my language-related questions, and Hajar Moudni for help with translation.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The Darija-language scripts at Plug-In studios were always written in Arabic script. See Caubet (Citation2018b) on the use of different scripts to write Darija.2 For a discussion of the Casablancan dialect and how various speakers align themselves with it, or distance themselves from it, see Atiqa Hachimi (Citation2007).3 One exception is a recent article by Hachimi (Citation2022), which exami
摘要肥皂剧已被证明在国民公共性的生产中起着关键作用。然而，如果他们的生活方式和演员明显不是国民，会发生什么呢?本文探讨了外国(墨西哥、土耳其、巴西)肥皂剧在摩洛哥产生新的民族想象中的作用。在卡萨布兰卡(Casablanca)的录音室里，这些肥皂剧用摩洛哥阿拉伯语(Darija)进行配音。通过对这些录音室的人种志研究，我探索了录音室员工(翻译、配音演员、音响工程师)在将这种高度本土化的语言涂在明显陌生的身体上时所经历的不适。通过对员工之间讨论的分析，我展示了他们是如何通过将国家语言分为两个区域来应对这种不适的:一个中立的区域，似乎任何人都可以使用;以及一份“真实的”摩洛哥人登记册。我认为，这种分歧产生了一种新的可能性，即把外国人想象成摩洛哥国家的一部分，同时又与他们保持距离。أجسامأجنبية،لغةمحلية:صياغةأصواتأجنبيةفياستوديوللدبلجةبالدارالبيضاءالمسلسلاتالدراميةتلعبدورًارئيسيًافيإنتاجالجمهورالوطني。ولكنماذايحدثعندماتكونأنماطالحياةوالممثلينالتيتتميزبهاهاتهالمسلسلاتليستوطنية؟يبحثهذاالمقالعندورالمسلسلاتالأجنبية(المكسيكيةوالتركيةوالبرازيلية)فيإنتاجمخيلاتوطنيةجديدةفيالمغرب。عبردراسةإثنوغرافيةلأستوديوپلوگإن،استوديوللتسجيلبالدارالبيضاءحيثيتمدبلجةهذهالمسلسلاتمنلغتهاالأصليةإلىاللغةالمغربيةالعامية(الدارجة)،أستكشفالانزعاجالذييعانيمنهموظفوالاستوديو(المترجمونوالمدبلجونومهندسوالصوت)عندتغليفهذهالأجسامالأجنبيةباللغةالمحلية。عبرتحليلالمناقشاتبينموظفيالاستوديو،أظهركيفيتعاملونمعهذاالانزعاجمنخلالتقسيماللغةالوطنيةإلىسجلين:سجلمحايديمكنأنيتكلمبهأيشخصوأيجسد،وسجل”حقيقي”يشيرإلىالهويةالمغربيةالقحة。أجادلأنهذاالتقسيمينتجإمكانياتجديدةلتخيلالأجانبكجزءمنالوطنالمغربي،معإبقاءمسافةبينهموبينالمغاربة。关键词:MoroccodubbinglanguagevoicetelevisionforeignnessArabic:المغربالدبلجةلغةصوتالتلفزةالأجنبيةالعربيةAcknowledgmentsThis文章受益颇多的讨论在2016年在拉巴特摩洛哥研究研讨会和“种族、黑暗和非洲”小组在2018年非洲研究协会的年度会议。我还要特别感谢Mounir Ouzine回答了我所有与语言有关的问题，并感谢Hajar Moudni在翻译方面的帮助。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。注1插件工作室的darija语言脚本总是用阿拉伯语脚本编写的。参见Caubet (Citation2018b)关于使用不同的文字来写darija。2关于卡萨布兰卡方言以及不同的说话者如何与它保持一致或远离它的讨论，请参见Atiqa Hachimi (Citation2007)Hachimi最近发表的一篇文章(Citation2022)是个例外，文章探讨了摩洛哥人对中东歌手使用Darija的态度。另请参阅Abdelfattah Kilito (Citation2017)对他在达利加与美国女性交谈时的不适的精彩反思。例如，Reem Bassiouney (Citation2014, 185)讨论了一部埃及电影，其中一个印度角色(由阿联酋演员饰演)说“混杂的阿拉伯语”。5最明显的例子是埃及女演员尤瑟拉饰演的Hoshiyar Qadin。6《插件》的联合导演Hicham Chraïbi将预期的结果描述为“一个新的Darija，不太卡萨布兰卡，不太法西(来自非斯)，不太北方，不太粗俗”(引自Miller Citation2012, 7)。然而，对插件配音节目的社会语言学分析表明，使用的语言倾向于卡萨布兰卡(Bensoukas and Blila Citation2013;Ziamari and Barontini Citation2013)。Jacopo Falchetta (Citation2022)最近的一项研究特别有趣，该研究认为配音节目中使用的Darija注册索引了一个“非本地化的个体”。7 Hall (Citation2015)描述了她在摩洛哥实地考察期间遇到的类似反应。8有关2003年至2012年摩洛哥电视发展和收视率的详细讨论，请参见Miller (Citation2017)“听着，伊莎贝拉，我爱你爱得要死，我发誓……我无法想象没有你的生活，这太过分了。“我不是什么玩具，如果你想要真实的东西，那就和爸爸谈谈，找到解决方案……”在互联网上的一篇评论中，米勒(Citation2017)报告说，许多人认为用于配音的Darija是“荒谬的”，听起来像一个广告。这项工作得到了富布赖特美国学生项目和美国马格里布研究所的支持。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2238267
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 traditions. Many platforms, such as the Sisters’ Circle and Marriage Guidance and Counselling (MAGACO), are used by the MSSN to guide the women on how to achieve this tradition of reform. Through these platforms, the women are engaged on a variety of subjects, such as giving support to acquire Western education, learning the prophetic traditions, and dealing with marital concerns and societal problems that affect their gender. I argue that these platforms enable Muslim women to actively participate in public life and deal with the problems they face in education, religion and marriage. This is demonstrated in their employment in many professional careers, and their ability to stimulate changes, including contesting the notion of women’s education, the women-centred reform orientation of the MSSN, and the government policy on veiling in public schools.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2237922
R. 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 of the BBC documentary and three Nigerian higher institutions’ sexual harassment policies, complemented by specialized literature on gender, history, and sexuality, to examine the value of the policies and their limitations. I argue that the fundamental limitation of most of the policies is the persistence of how coloniality shapes gender in education. The gendered influences on education date back to colonialism and need to be challenged and questioned. I argue that, while policies are vital for driving transformative education, inclusive learning and a safe environment, it is crucial to consider how colonialism shaped gender in Nigeria, and to reflect on the structural and cultural logics that perpetuate gender norms.
ABSTRACT 性暴力和性骚扰一直是非洲大陆及其他地区高等教育中长期存在的话题。为了回应各种报道和丑闻，包括 2019 年 BBC 非洲之眼系列纪录片 "Sex for Grades：尼日利亚大学制定了性骚扰政策。本文通过对 BBC 纪录片和尼日利亚三所高等院校性骚扰政策的女性主义文本分析，并辅以性别、历史和性学方面的专业文献，探讨了这些政策的价值及其局限性。我认为，大多数政策的根本局限性在于殖民主义如何影响教育中的性别问题。教育中的性别影响可以追溯到殖民主义时期，需要受到挑战和质疑。我认为，虽然政策对于推动变革性教育、全纳学习和安全环境至关重要，但至关重要的是要考虑殖民主义是如何在尼日利亚塑造性别的，并反思使性别规范长期存在的结构和文化逻辑。
{"title":"Nigerian Universities’ Sexual Harassment Policies: Palliative or Provocative?","authors":"R. Popoola","doi":"10.1080/13696815.2023.2237922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2237922","url":null,"abstract":"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 of the BBC documentary and three Nigerian higher institutions’ sexual harassment policies, complemented by specialized literature on gender, history, and sexuality, to examine the value of the policies and their limitations. I argue that the fundamental limitation of most of the policies is the persistence of how coloniality shapes gender in education. The gendered influences on education date back to colonialism and need to be challenged and questioned. I argue that, while policies are vital for driving transformative education, inclusive learning and a safe environment, it is crucial to consider how colonialism shaped gender in Nigeria, and to reflect on the structural and cultural logics that perpetuate gender norms.","PeriodicalId":45196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Cultural Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"254 - 267"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363648","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}
Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2237912
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 clothing have been part of Nigerian universities since their founding.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2237927
Olayinka Solomon Elusoji
ABSTRACT The Chinese presence in Africa is usually analysed through a soft power framework that benefits China at the expense of host countries. But this article argues that the Chinese presence at the University of Lagos, one of Nigeria’s premier universities, benefits both Nigerians and Chinese. For the former, signs of this presence generate dreams of migration and economic freedom; for the latter, they inspire dreams of cultural and economic influence. However, this interaction has not had a significant impact on Nigerian attitudes towards China, which are complex and variegated. The data was gathered through interviews with students and instructors at the University of Lagos’s Confucius Institute and the direct observations of the researcher over a six-month period between 2021 and 2022.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2237906
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 about universities are transgenerational. As the nation that gave birth to these universities changed for the worse, its universities followed. This bifurcation in thinking about the role of Nigerian universities is evident in the novels that have been inspired by the Nigerian university as setting. This article argues that the Nigerian campus, in terms of ideological formation, as reflected in the novels selected for this study, is elitist in foundation and populist in progression. It argues that campus narratives, while acting as documents of elite behavioural activity, also highlight that the relationship between the evolution of Nigeria and its university system is instrumental to the formation of elite forms on campus, and reveals universities’ subsequent transformation into spaces for the creation of non-elite ideological forms in the larger society.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2238200
Carli Coetzee, L. Egbunike
This special issue is the result of a long-running collaboration between the Journal of African Cultural Studies and the Lagos Studies Association (Figure 1). The Lagos Studies Association, through its annual conference held at the University of Lagos, has made a name for itself for the sustained attention it pays to the development and professionalisation of younger scholars. Panels around the theme of Nigerian Campus Forms were first convened at the 2019 conference, and the call invited participants to develop arguments related to any aspects of university life in Nigeria. The research project has at various times consisted of more people than are represented in this special issue, but not all in the end were able to submit their research (Ayalogu, Cheng and Ojudun, Fasan, Nwako and Ogunoye, all with unpublished work in progress, were active participants in the reading group and meetings we had). The current special issue is one of three themed issues published by the Journal of African Cultural Studies devoted to African universities. This issue follows the volume guest edited by Anne Gulick (2023), and a bilingual English/ French issue “Campus Forms / Le campus sous toutes ses forms” is forthcoming, guest edited by Ruth Bush. The collective project on Nigerian universities invited scholars to reflect on the conditions under which knowledge was produced, from a specific place and community. The infrastructure of the University of Lagos campus, where the conference takes place, was a useful starting point from which to document and analyse the remnants of the idealism and beauty of what Tim Livsey in his influential monograph has called Nigeria’s University Age (2017). This beautiful campus, with its buildings that allow fresh air to circulate, and with the lush gardens extending to the lagoon, shows signs of the challenges faced by scholars working and studying there. Kolawole Charles Omotayo’s striking conference presentation was delivered at the 2019 LSA conference. His work documented and analysed the lack of toilet facilities on university campuses, something which was made very concrete for those of us attending the conference and which accurately reflected our experiences struggling to find facilities. In these articles, there is a repetitive refrain of decay and decline, as infrastructures have not managed to keep up with the rising numbers of students seeking higher education alongside other economic challenges facing Nigerian institutions. This special issue provides snapshots of the campus experiences across Nigeria, historicising campus culture, and considering the gendered, religious and international aspects of campus life. Authors present the distinctions between public and private universities,
本特刊是《非洲文化研究》杂志与拉各斯研究协会长期合作的成果（图 1）。拉各斯研究协会通过其在拉各斯大学举办的年会，因持续关注年轻学者的发展和专业化而声名鹊起。围绕 "尼日利亚校园形式 "这一主题的小组讨论首次在 2019 年会议上召开，会议邀请与会者就尼日利亚大学生活的任何方面展开讨论。该研究项目在不同时期的参与者人数超过了本特刊中的人数，但最终并非所有人都能提交自己的研究成果（Ayalogu、Cheng 和 Ojudun、Fasan、Nwako 和 Ogunoye 都有未发表的研究成果，但他们都积极参加了我们的读书小组和会议）。本期特刊是《非洲文化研究》杂志专门为非洲大学出版的三期主题特刊之一。本期是继安妮-古利克（Anne Gulick）客座主编的《非洲大学》（2023 年）之后出版的又一期特刊，由露丝-布什（Ruth Bush）客座主编的英法双语特刊 "Campus Forms / Le campus sous toutes ses forms "也即将出版。关于尼日利亚大学的集体项目邀请学者们从特定的地点和社区出发，反思知识产生的条件。会议举办地拉各斯大学校园的基础设施是一个有用的起点，可以从中记录和分析蒂姆-利夫西（Tim Livsey）在其颇具影响力的专著《尼日利亚的大学时代》（2017）中所称的理想主义和美丽的残余。这座美丽的校园，其建筑让新鲜空气得以流通，郁郁葱葱的花园一直延伸到泻湖边，显示出在这里工作和学习的学者们所面临的挑战。科拉沃勒-查尔斯-奥莫塔约（Kolawole Charles Omotayo）在2019年法学会大会上做了引人注目的大会发言。他的作品记录并分析了大学校园缺乏厕所设施的问题，这对我们这些参加会议的人来说非常具体，也准确地反映了我们努力寻找设施的经历。在这些文章中，我们反复听到的是衰败和衰退的声音，因为基础设施跟不上寻求高等教育的学生人数不断增加的速度，同时尼日利亚院校还面临着其他经济挑战。本特刊提供了尼日利亚各地校园经历的快照，将校园文化历史化，并考虑了校园生活的性别、宗教和国际方面。作者介绍了公立大学和私立大学之间的区别、
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