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Explores the range of vibrant cultural production and political
activism of youth in Africa today, as expressed through art, music,
theater, and online media. This edited collection focuses on the
links between youth and African popular culture. Contributions by a
distinguished group of scholars explore popular culture produced
and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. Essays cover a
variety of cultural representations--visual, oral, written,
performative, fictional, social, and virtual--created by African
youth, mostly about their lives and their immediate societies, and
for themselves, but also consumed by the larger public and shared
locally and globally. The volume examines the range of music, art,
and media African youth produce, under what conditions or contexts
they produce such work, and the aesthetic dimensions of these texts
as cultural artifacts. Essays further explore why these textual
practices matter as social facts, as interpretive acts, and as
symbols of the cultural activism of young people in a rapidly
changing world-a world where the global cultural economy is the
prime terrain for the relentless struggles over the meanings that
come to shape political-economic and social systems.
All over the world, there is growing concern about the
ramifications of globalization, late-modernity and general global
social and economic restructuring on the lives and futures of young
people. Bringing together a wide body of research to reflect on
youth responses to social change in Africa, this volume shows that
while young people in the region face extraordinary social
challenges in their everyday lives, they also continue to devise
unique ways to reinvent their difficult circumstances and prosper
in the midst of seismic global and local social changes.
Contributors from Africa and around the world cover a wide range of
topics on African youth cultures, exploring the lives of young
people not necessarily as victims, but as active social players in
the face of a shifting, late-modernist civilization. With empirical
cases and varied theoretical approaches, the book offers a timely
scholarly contribution to debates around globalization and its
implications and impacts for Africa's youth.
All over the world, there is growing concern about the
ramifications of globalization, late-modernity and general global
social and economic restructuring on the lives and futures of young
people. Bringing together a wide body of research to reflect on
youth responses to social change in Africa, this volume shows that
while young people in the region face extraordinary social
challenges in their everyday lives, they also continue to devise
unique ways to reinvent their difficult circumstances and prosper
in the midst of seismic global and local social changes.
Contributors from Africa and around the world cover a wide range of
topics on African youth cultures, exploring the lives of young
people not necessarily as victims, but as active social players in
the face of a shifting, late-modernist civilization. With empirical
cases and varied theoretical approaches, the book offers a timely
scholarly contribution to debates around globalization and its
implications and impacts for Africa's youth.
Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema
beyond its Nigerian origins. In 15 lively essays, this volume
traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the
African continent and the rest of the world. Topics such as
Nollywood as a theoretical construct, the development of a new,
critical film language, and Nollywood s transformation outside of
Nigeria reveal the broader implications of this film form as it
travels and develops. Highlighting controversies surrounding
commodification, globalization, and the development of the film
industry on a wider scale, this volume gives sustained attention to
Nollywood as a uniquely African cultural production."
Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema
beyond its Nigerian origins. In 15 lively essays, this volume
traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the
African continent and the rest of the world. Topics such as
Nollywood as a theoretical construct, the development of a new,
critical film language, and Nollywood s transformation outside of
Nigeria reveal the broader implications of this film form as it
travels and develops. Highlighting controversies surrounding
commodification, globalization, and the development of the film
industry on a wider scale, this volume gives sustained attention to
Nollywood as a uniquely African cultural production."
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