Analogue Africa

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Notes on the Anti-Colonial Imagination

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Africa is a convenient abbreviation for 54 countries in which more than a thousand languages are spoken. This book offers a side-long glance, one that complicates the idea of a single continent. So much of what we understand about these places comes from western media sources, which too often treat Africa as a metaphor for their own anxieties. Yet, by picking out specific episodes and practices - cinema, art, ethnography and journalism -- Harding rescues us, and Africa, from such patronising generalisations. Analogue Africa excavates the many facets of the anti-colonial imagination: cinema, photography, art and journalism. The book celebrates the ingenuity with which African artists - and a handful of Europeans -- have reimagined the colonial encounter and the struggle against white minority rule . This includes artists, filmmakers and photographers such as John Akomfrah, William Kentridge, Binyavanga Wainaina, Seydou Keïta, Sanlé Sory and Sarah Maldoror. Harding also looks at the role of western museums - The British Museum, the Musée du quai Branly, Tervuren- that display African art, and what it says about the post colonial imagination.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-03-17
Mått153 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt400 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagVerso Books
ISBN9781804295946

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IntroductionI: Finders KeepersChapter 1: Report from Sirius B: Colonial Curiosity on the RampageChapter 2: A Visitor's Guide to Three Museums-Jungle Fever at Quai Branly-RIP 2000: The British Museum at the Turn of the Century-Decolonisation for Beginners: The AfricaMuseum, TervurenII: Unauthorised VersionsChapter 3: This site is under Reconstruction: Albert Camus and Kamel DaoudChapter 4: Mangy-Dog in Mozambique: Bertina Lopes and Luís Bernardo HonwanaChapter 5: 'Women who struggle': Sarah MaldororIII: A Pathway for the ColonisedChapter 6: The West African Photographer's Studio-One Pose, A Single Exposure: Seydou Keïta, Studio Photographer, Mali-We're dancing tonight: Sanlé Sory, Studio Photographer, Burkina FasoChapter 7: Apartheid in Monochrome-White Dreams and Proprieties: David Goldblatt, Photographer at Large-Raise, Focus, Shoot, Conceal: Ernest Cole, Photographer at LargeIV. RemastersChapter 8: Binyavanga Wainaina: Writer, Sampler, SpamChapter 9: William Kentridge and John Akomfrah-Descent of the Coffee Plunger: William Kentridge -Archive Science: John AkomfrahAdditional SourcesListening Booth