Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations

This volume brings together insights from distinguished scholars from around the world to address the facts, fiction and creative imaginations in the pervasive portrayals of Africa, its people, societies and cultures in the literature and the media. The fictionalization of Africa and African issues in the media and the popular literature that blends facts and fiction has rendered perceptions of Africa, its cultures, societies, customs, and conflicts often superficial and deficient in the popular Western consciousness. The book brings eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines to sort out the persistent fictionalization of Africa, from facts pertaining to the genesis of powerful cultural, political or religious icons, the historical and cultural significance of "intriguing" customs (such as tribal marks), gender relations, causes of conflicts and African responses, and creative imaginations in contemporary African films, fiction and literature, among others.

ISBN 0415803160   Pages 348 ISBN13 9780415803168 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 606 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Hardback   Series title Routledge African Studies Publication date 01 Sep 2009   Height (mm) 229 Library of Congress 2009008406   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 960.33   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Postgraduate

		List of Figures
		Introduction by Toyin Falola and Fallou Ngom		1
Pt. I		Significance of African Popular Icons and Culture
1		Whose Image of Whose Africa? Problems of Representation in Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Shadow of the Sun by Lena L. Khor		23
2		Prophetess: Aline Sitoe Diatta as a Contested Icon in Contemporary Senegal by Robert M. Baum		48
3		Custom and Politics in Ghanaian Popular Culture by Beverly J. Stoeltje		60
4		Tribal Marks among the Oyo Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria in the 21st Century by Elizabeth Adenike Ajayi and Sekinat Kola-Aderoju		75
5		Echoes of African Praise Songs in the Poetry of Kamau Brathwaite by Michael Sharp		91
Pt. II		Religion and African Creative Imaginations
6		Devil Worship as a Moral Discourse about Youth in Kenya by David A. Samper		105
7		A Historical Analysis of Ojude-Oba Festival in Ijebu Ode, Nigeria by Abiodun Akeem Oladiti		122
8		Temne Agency in the Propagation and Africanization of Islam in Colonial Freetown, 1920-1961 by Joseph J. Bangura		134
9		The Antenna and the Mosque: Liberatory Mass Media in Moolaade by Gerise Herndon		151
Pt. III		Gender and African Artistic Imaginations
10		Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq's and Zainab Idris's Video-Film Albashi by Carmen McCain		163
11		"What's an Old Man Like You Doing with a Saignante Like Me?" by Kenneth W. Harrow		190
12		An African Feminist Analysis of Popular Culture by Roberta K. Timothy		207
13		Other Monsters: Gender Complexities of (Femi/woma/ stiwa)nism in Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather by Simone Sessolo		220
Pt. IV		African Cultures and Artistic Imaginations
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