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Congo Style

From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence

By Ruth Sacks
Subjects: African Studies, Art, Art History, Urban Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examines the impact of colonial Belgium’s influence on the Congo’s visual culture

Lagos Never Spoils

Nollywood and Nigerian City Life

By Connor Ryan
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examines the relationship between Nollywood and the city of Lagos

Continuous Pasts

Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa

By Sakiru Adebayo
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Investigates the ways in which postcolonial African fiction deals with or, in some cases, becomes the source of memory friction

Writing on the Soil

Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa

By Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

How representations of land and landscape perform important metaphorical labor in African literatures

In Search of Tunga

Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town

By André Chappatte
Subjects: African Studies, Religion, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Series: African Perspectives

The lives of young male Muslim “adventurers” in a Malian town

Power / Knowledge / Land

Contested Ontologies of Land and Its Governance in Africa

By Laura German
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, Governance
Series: African Perspectives

Explores contested truths surrounding land governance in Africa and beyond

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