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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.
Contents
Introduction
I: Finders Keepers
Chapter 1: Report from Sirius B: Colonial Curiosity on the Rampage
Chapter 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, Tervuren
II: Unauthorised Versions
Chapter 3: This site is under Reconstruction: Albert Camus and Kamel Daoud
Chapter 4: Mangy-Dog in Mozambique: Bertina Lopes and Luís Bernardo Honwana
Chapter 5: 'Women who struggle': Sarah Maldoror
III: A Pathway for the Colonised
Chapter 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 Faso
Chapter 7: Apartheid in Monochrome
-White Dreams and Proprieties: David Goldblatt, Photographer at Large
-Raise, Focus, Shoot, Conceal: Ernest Cole, Photographer at Large
IV. Remasters
Chapter 8: Binyavanga Wainaina: Writer, Sampler, Spam
Chapter 9: William Kentridge and John Akomfrah
-Descent of the Coffee Plunger: William Kentridge
-Archive Science: John Akomfrah
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