Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1017/S0001972023000542
Margot Luyckfasseel
Abstract This article studies how anti-Christian, ‘traditionally African’ organizations, locally known as Églises des Noirs, navigate religious competition in the Congolese capital through sonic and linguistic strategies. It focuses on the understudied Mpadist community, a ‘dissident’ branch of the better known Kimbanguist church. Mpadists mobilize diverging appreciations and meanings of sound and language to set themselves apart from the dominant Lingalaphone Pentecostal loudness of the city. In doing so, they pursue a delicate balance between Kongo traditionalism, the source of their spiritual legitimacy, rooted in colonial prophetic movements, and tactics of ‘modern’ community making in order to remain competitive within Kinshasa’s prolific religious setting. The article argues that ideologies of sound and language should be analysed within the same nexus, for they operate and are operationalized in similar ways. It therefore proposes to expand the sociolinguistic notion of indexicality to incorporate elements of the volume and modalities of sound making. The article also shows that sonic and linguistic ideologies are bound by context. In Kinshasa’s ‘low-fi’ soundscape, the indexical values of the languages Kikongo and Lingala, and of unamplified and amplified sound production, share similar features, yet they are evaluated differently in rural ‘hi-fi’ sonic environments.
本文研究了反基督教、“传统非洲”组织(在当地被称为Églises des Noirs)如何通过声音和语言策略在刚果首都的宗教竞争中导航。它关注的是未被充分研究的Mpadist社区，这是更知名的金班吉派教会的一个“持不同政见”的分支。Mpadists动员不同的欣赏和意义的声音和语言，把自己从占主导地位的Lingalaphone五旬节派响亮的城市。在这样做的过程中，他们在刚果传统主义(根植于殖民预言运动的精神合法性的来源)和“现代”社区建设策略之间寻求微妙的平衡，以便在金沙萨丰富的宗教环境中保持竞争力。本文认为，声音意识形态和语言意识形态以相似的方式运作和实现，因此应在同一关系中进行分析。因此，它建议扩大指数性的社会语言学概念，以纳入声音制作的音量和模式的元素。文章还表明，语音和语言意识形态受到语境的约束。在金沙萨的“低保真”音景中，基孔戈语和林加拉语的指数值，以及未放大和放大的声音制作的指数值具有相似的特征，但在农村的“高保真”音景中，它们的评估却不同。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1017/S000197202300044X
Eniola Anuoluwapo Soyemi
{"title":"Amy Niang, The Postcolonial African State in Transition: Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty. London: Rowman and Littlefield (hb US$138/£106 – 978 1 78660 652 5; pb US$47/£36 – 978 1 78660 653 2). 2018, xi + 231 pp.","authors":"Eniola Anuoluwapo Soyemi","doi":"10.1017/S000197202300044X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S000197202300044X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80373,"journal":{"name":"Africa : notiziario dell'Associazione fra le imprese italiane in Africa","volume":"8 1","pages":"438 - 440"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90445673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1017/S0001972023000487
G. Camară
{"title":"Karine Ginisty, Services Urbains et Justice Spatiale à Maputo (Urban Services and Spatial Justice in Maputo). Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre (hb €23 – 978 2 84016 379 4). 2021, 354 pp.","authors":"G. Camară","doi":"10.1017/S0001972023000487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972023000487","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80373,"journal":{"name":"Africa : notiziario dell'Associazione fra le imprese italiane in Africa","volume":"5 1","pages":"446 - 447"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75850766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1017/S0001972023000566
Ewa Majczak
Abstract Against the background of post-Cold War trade and media liberalization, this article examines how young women living in Yaoundé, Cameroon, share digital images of their crafted styles via WhatsApp. Such sharing is an act of influence usually aimed at building the woman’s name as a digital ‘fashionista’, in that it constitutes a virtual potential for persuading others to copy one’s style. When this potential is actualized among women of status and rank, young women can fashion relations of matronage, opening up avenues of upward social mobility. To reach out to women of status and rank, young women circulate images of their styles to mobilize digital follower networks of peers, kin and strangers, drawing on their skills, status and knowledge. This mobilization in turn relies on the actual and potential benefits that sharing a fashionista image can bring to the follower. Thus, I argue, interdependencies between stylish leaders and their followers are key to making and maintaining a name as a digital fashionista. This article contributes to the literature on fashion and social mobility in West Africa by showing how the circulation of digital images over social media networks generates potentialities for young women living in Yaoundé to fashion matronage relations and social mobility. More broadly, the framing of followers as a form of wealth-in-people provides a critique of the neoliberal market valuation of social media influencers, illuminating alternative regimes of valuation that inform digital influencer economies.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1017/s000197202300058x
{"title":"AFR volume 93 issue 3 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s000197202300058x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s000197202300058x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80373,"journal":{"name":"Africa : notiziario dell'Associazione fra le imprese italiane in Africa","volume":"1 1","pages":"f1 - f4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89647712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1017/S0001972023000463
Maryam Yusuf Magaji
{"title":"Ignatius Chukwumah (ed.), Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change. Abingdon: Routledge (hb £130 – 978 0 3677 7624 4). 2022, 310 pp.","authors":"Maryam Yusuf Magaji","doi":"10.1017/S0001972023000463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972023000463","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80373,"journal":{"name":"Africa : notiziario dell'Associazione fra le imprese italiane in Africa","volume":"18 1","pages":"442 - 444"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83832858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1017/S0001972023000530
O. E. Nnabuihe
Abstract This article draws from funeral rituals and performative festivals to reflect on how and why burials, reburials and performances of Eyo and Nzem Berom festivals provide excellent examples of cultural politics and represent occasions for the (re)production of kinship, belonging and claims to ownership in the cities of Lagos and Jos. It argues that existing literature on the politics of belonging in Africa either understates or overlooks the roles of funerals and festivals in expressing and contesting ownership of the city. Relying on institutional ethnography, the article illustrates the essentially political nature of festivals and funerals in relation to city ownership, not only in the sense that traditional place identity benefits some groups more than others but also in that it defines who belongs and who does not while inducing conflicts.
{"title":"Frontiers of belonging and politics of identity: the materiality of funeral rituals and festivals in Nigeria’s urban space","authors":"O. E. Nnabuihe","doi":"10.1017/S0001972023000530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972023000530","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article draws from funeral rituals and performative festivals to reflect on how and why burials, reburials and performances of Eyo and Nzem Berom festivals provide excellent examples of cultural politics and represent occasions for the (re)production of kinship, belonging and claims to ownership in the cities of Lagos and Jos. It argues that existing literature on the politics of belonging in Africa either understates or overlooks the roles of funerals and festivals in expressing and contesting ownership of the city. Relying on institutional ethnography, the article illustrates the essentially political nature of festivals and funerals in relation to city ownership, not only in the sense that traditional place identity benefits some groups more than others but also in that it defines who belongs and who does not while inducing conflicts.","PeriodicalId":80373,"journal":{"name":"Africa : notiziario dell'Associazione fra le imprese italiane in Africa","volume":"36 1","pages":"331 - 350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81112151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1017/S0001972023000517
Tongai F. Chichaya
{"title":"Jeff D. Grischow and Magnus Mfoafo-M’Carthy (eds), Disability Rights and Inclusiveness in Africa: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Challenges, and Change. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £19.99 – 978 1 8470 1291 3). 2022, 300 pp.","authors":"Tongai F. Chichaya","doi":"10.1017/S0001972023000517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972023000517","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80373,"journal":{"name":"Africa : notiziario dell'Associazione fra le imprese italiane in Africa","volume":"484 1","pages":"451 - 452"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76373906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1017/S0001972023000499
Moritz Fischer
{"title":"Amy Stambach and Aikande Kwayu, Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church: Bishop Erasto N. Kweka’s Life and Work. Lanham MD: Lexington Books (hb US$95/£73 – 978 1 7936 0359 3). 2020, 150 pp.","authors":"Moritz Fischer","doi":"10.1017/S0001972023000499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972023000499","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80373,"journal":{"name":"Africa : notiziario dell'Associazione fra le imprese italiane in Africa","volume":"173 1","pages":"448 - 449"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76644329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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