COURSE LITERATURE

We use different course material at this course; it is composed of books, articles, and films. In addition, we have added links to various sites and artists, plus non-mandatory reading to stimulate your interest. The readings are listed separately under each week, see modules. Please find the complete list below:

LITERATURE

Cham, M. 2020. African Cinema: Between the "Old" and the "New". Black Camera 12(1), 133-139. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/780258Links to an external site..

Dovey, L. 2019. Towards Alternative Histories and Herstories of African Filmmaking: From Bricolage to the "Curatorial Turn" in African Film Scholarship. In Harrow, K.W. and Garritano, C. (eds) 2019. A Companion to African Cinema. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 467-485

Gearhart, Rebecca. 2005. “Ngoma Memories: How Ritual Music and Dance Shaped the Northern Kenyan Coast.” African Studies Review 48 (3): 21-47.

Giulianotti, R., & Numerato, D. (2018). Global sport and consumer culture: An introduction. Journal of Consumer Culture, 18(2), 229–240. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540517744691

Hagberg, S: 2006. The Politics of Joking Relationships in Burkina Faso. Zeitschrift für EthnologieLinks to an external site. 131(2), 197-214.

Harrow, K.W. 2017. Introduction. In Harrow, K.W. and Barlet, O. (eds) 2017. African Filmmaking: Five formations. Michigan University Press, pp. 1-30.

Harrow, K.W. and Garritano, C. (eds) 2019. Introduction. In Harrow, K.W. and Garritano, C. (eds) 2019. A Companion to African Cinema. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp.1-12.

Hopkinson, L. (2021). Being “The Best Ever”: Contradictions of immobility and aspiration for boxers in Accra, Ghana. In Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age (1st ed., Vol. 1, pp. 176–194). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429423277-13Links to an external site.

Hulshof, Carolien. 2023. Chapter 2 "Come in and Listen to the Drums." In Walking the Line. Female Wedding Ngoma in Zanzibar, 37-66. PhD diss., University of Uppsala. Download hereLinks to an external site..

Lindberg, E. (2023). "Dreams of gold in the football marketplace", in Dream machine : an ethnography of football migration between Ghana and Sweden. (pp. 81-108). Phd dissertation. Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University.

Marzagora, Sara, ’Literatures in African languages’, Journal of African Cultural Studies 27:1 (2015), pp. 1–6.

Mwangi, Evan Maina, ’Swahili Literature (Fasihi ya Kiswahili)’, in A Companion to African Literatures, ed. by Olakunle George (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2021), pp. 79–99.

Ottenberg, S. Humorous Masks and Serious Politics among the Afikpo Igbo. In In R.R. GrinkerLinks to an external site., S.C. LubkemannLinks to an external site. & C. SteinerLinks to an external site. (red.) 2010. Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 335-347. Download PDF

Robert, Shaaban, ’Amina’, originally published in Maisha Yangu (Nairobi: Nelson, 1949). Swahili text and translation available at the UCLA Swahili Poetry Project http://swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu/?page_id=442Links to an external site.

Sawadogo, B. 2019. Critical Reading Lenses in the study of African Cinema. In Sawadogo, B. 2019 African Film Studies: An Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 105-125.

Sawadogo, B. 2019. Introduction. In Sawadogo, B. 2019. West African Screen Media: Comedy, TV series and Transnationalization. Michigan University Press, pp. 1-19

Skinner, R. T. (2015). An Afropolitan Muse. Research in African Literatures, 46(2), 15–31Skinner, R. T. (2015). Artistiya. In Bamako Sounds: The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music (pp. 47-76). University of Minnesota Press.

Skinner, R. T. (2015). Ethics and Aesthetics. In Bamako Sounds: The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music (pp. 77-106). University of Minnesota Press.

Thackway, M. 2019. Crossing Lines: Frontiers, Circulations, and Identity in Contemporary African and Diaspora Film. In Harrow, K.W. and Garritano, C. (eds) 2019. A Companion to African Cinema. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 444-463.

Topp Fargion, Janet. 1999. "Consumer-led Creation: Taarab Music Composition in Zanzibar." In Composing the Music of Africa. Composition, Interpretation, and Realisation, edited by Malcolm Floyd, 195-226. Aldershot: Ashgate.

WATCH LIST - FILM WEEK

From Fear to Faith (1946)

http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/212Links to an external site.

Borrom Sarret (1963)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U59BefqjjtELinks to an external site.

Diabolo (1989)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t75Z8xqiM2ILinks to an external site.

Additional watching

Manthia Diawara on Borrom Sarret

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBaawhUQ9cILinks to an external site.

The figurine

https://www.netflix.com/search?q=the%20figurine&jbv=81165772Links to an external site.

Series Ahoé

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZE_nfr9TpwLinks to an external site.

Young, Famous & African

https://www.netflix.com/search?q=crazy%20rich%20africans&jbv=81310218Links to an external site.

NEWS LINKS FOR "This Month in Africa":

https://allafrica.com/

https://www.africanews.com/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world/africa

https://www.france24.com/en/africa/

https://www.aljazeera.com/africa/

https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa

https://globalbar.se/

www.nai.uu.se

REFERENCE LITERATURE (non-mandatory)

Adejunmobi, M. 2019. Streaming Quality, Streaming Cinema. In Harrow, K.W. and Garritano, C. (eds) 2019. A Companion to African Cinema. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 219-243.

Aterianus-Owanga, A. 2017. ‪Rap Studies in Africa. Revue analytique de la littérature sur le rap en Afrique depuis les années 2000‪. Volume ! 14(1), 7-22.

Barlet, O. 2000. African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze, London; New York: Zed Books (Part 3, Chapters 1 and 2)

Darby, P., Esson, J., & Ungruhe, C. (2022). African football migration : aspirations, experiences and trajectories. Manchester University Press. (available online)

Diawara, M. 2010. African film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics, Munich; New York: Prestel.

Dovey, L. 2015. Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals. Palgrave-Macmillan. (Introduction)

Duran, L. 2013. POYI! Bamana jeli music, Mali and the blues. Journal of African Cultural Studies 25(2), 211-246.

Green-Simms, L. B. (2022). Queer African Cinemas. Duke University Press. Introduction https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-1-4780-1801-8_601.pdfLinks to an external site.

Haynes, J. 2019. Between the Informal Sector and Transnational Capitalism: Transformations of Nollywood? In Harrow, K. and Garritano, C. (eds) 2019. A Companion to African Cinema. Oxford: Wiley & Blackwell, 244-268. Haynes. Between the informal sector and transnational capitalism-2.pdf

Mistry J., Schuhmann, A. (Eds.). 2015. Gaze Regimes: Film and feminisms in Africa. Wits University Press. (Introduction)

Newell, S. (2012). The modernity bluff : crime, consumption, and citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire. The University of Chicago Press. (available online)

Ntarangwi, M. 2010. African Hip Hop and Politics of Change in an Era of Rapid Globalization. Historical Compass 8(12), 1316-1327.

Pietilä, T. 2017. The Discursive Creation of a Subculture by Conscious Rap Adherents in South Africa. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 42(2), 25-42.

Sawadogo, B. 2019. In West African Screen Media: Comedy, TV Series, and Transnationalization. Michigan State University Press, 1-20. Download pdf here.

Ukadike, N.F. 1995. Black African Cinema. University of California Press (Chapter 1: Africa and the Cinema)

Ukadike, N. F. & Gabriel, T. 2002 Questioning African Cinema: Conversations with Filmmakers, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [online] Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttv6tx [Accessed 15 September 2020].

Ungruhe, C. (2010). Symbols of success: Youth, peer pressure and the role of adulthood among juvenile male return migrants in Ghana. Childhood (Copenhagen, Denmark), 17(2), 259–271.