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African Performance Arts and Political Acts
Naomi André, Yolanda Covington-Ward, and Jendele Hungbo, EditorsAfrican Performance Arts and Political Actspresents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history and politics. This collection, edited by Naomi André, Yolanda Covington-Ward, and Jendele Hungbo, engages with a breadth of African countries and art forms, bringing together speech, hip hop, religious healing and gesture, theater and social justice, opera, radio announcements, protest songs, and migrant workers' dances. The spaces include village communities, city landscapes, prisons, urban hostels, Township theaters, opera houses, and broadcasts through the airwaves on television and radio as well as in cyberspace. Essays focus on case studies from Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania.
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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The Play of Social and Political Roles in Everyday Life
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Performing Political Identities
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The Socio-poetics of Sanakuyaagal
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Participation beyond Gratitude
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Expressions of Identity, Consciousness, and Migration
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The Phenomenology of Collapsing Worlds
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African Heritage Revealed through Musical Encounters and Political Ideologies
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Discussing the Play Angalia Ni Mimi! and a Performance by the Playwright Marthe Djilo Kamga (Cameroon)
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Angalia Ni Mimi!
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Gendered Messages of Social Change
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Surviving Gender Violence
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Gangsters, Masculinity, and Ethics
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Songs of Protest and Activist Opera
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Seditious Songs
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Activist Operatic Spaces Depicting Reality
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The Intrinsic Power of Songs Sung During Protests at South African Institutions of Higher Learning (South Africa)
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Appendix for Zondi
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Contributors
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Index
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