Humour And Politics In Africa

Author : Daniel Hammett
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529219736
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humour and Politics in Africa written by Daniel Hammett and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses of humour often focus primarily on the Global North, with little consideration for examples and practices from elsewhere. This book provides a vital contribution to humour theory by developing a Global South perspective. Taking a wide-ranging view across the whole of the continent, the book examines the relationship between humour and politics in Africa. It considers the context of the production and reception of humour in African contexts and argues that humour is more than just symbolic. Moving beyond the idea of humour as a mode of resistance, the book investigates the ‘political work’ that humour does and explores the complex entanglements in which the politics, practices and performances of humour are located.

Author : Izuu Nwankwọ
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838216083
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stand-up Comedy in Africa written by Izuu Nwankwọ and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African cultural productions of humour have increased even in the face of myriad economic foibles and social upheavals. For instance, from the 1990s, stand-up comedy emerged across the continent and has maintained a pervasive presence since then. Its specificities are related to contemporary economic and political contexts and are also drawn from its pre-colonial history, that of joking forms and relationships, and orality. Izuu Nwankwọ's fascinating collected volume offers a transnational appraisal of this unique art form spanning different nations of the continent and its diasporas. The book engages variously with jokesters, their materials, the mediums of dissemination, and the cultural value(s) and relevance of their stage work, encompassing the form and content of the practice. Its ruling theoretical perspective comes from theatre and performance, cultural studies, linguistics, and literary studies.

Author : Daniel Hammett
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529219728
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humour and Politics in Africa written by Daniel Hammett and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses of humour often focus primarily on the Global North, with little consideration for examples and practices from elsewhere. This book provides a vital contribution to humour theory by developing a Global South perspective. Taking a wide-ranging view across the whole of the continent, the book examines the relationship between humour and politics in Africa. It considers the context of the production and reception of humour in African contexts and argues that humour is more than just symbolic. Moving beyond the idea of humour as a mode of resistance, the book investigates the ‘political work’ that humour does and explores the complex entanglements in which the politics, practices and performances of humour are located.

Author : Ignatius Chukwumah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351668889
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joke-Performance in Africa written by Ignatius Chukwumah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jokes have always been part of African culture, but never have they been so blended with the strains and gains of the contemporary African world as today. Joke-Performance in Africa describes and analyses the diverse aesthetics, forms, and media of jokes and their performance and shows how African jokes embody the anxieties of the time and space in which they are enacted. The book considers the pervasive phenomenon of jokes and their performance across Africa in such forms as local jests, street jokes, cartoons, mchongoano, ewhe-eje, stand-up comedy, internet sex jokes, and ‘comicast’ transmitted via modern technology media such as the TV, CDs, DVDs, the internet platforms of YouTube, Facebook, and other social arenas, as well as live performances. Countries represented are Egypt, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, and Zambia, covering the North, West, East and Southern Africa. The book explores the description of the joke form from various perspectives, ranging from critical discourse analysis, interviews, humour theories, psychoanalysis, the postcolony and technauriture, to the interactive dramaturgy of joke-performances, irrespective of media and modes of performance. Containing insightful contributions from leading African scholars, the book acquaints readers with detailed descriptions of the diverse aesthetics of contemporary African jokes, thereby contributing to the current understanding of joke-performance in Africa. It will appeal to students and scholars of African studies, popular culture, theatre, performance studies and literary studies.

Author : Tumusiime, James R.
Publisher : Fountain Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9970253107
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Makes Africans Laugh? Reflections of an Entrepreneur in Humour, Media and Culture written by Tumusiime, James R. and published by Fountain Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Makes Africans Laugh? is a critique of the African's attitude towards indigenous craftsmanship, knowledge and culture, especially in the post-independence era. It is woven around the life of James Tumusiime, who has been a campaigner for African self-reliance in the cultural industry - humour, media and historiography. Although Tumusiime draws many of his examples from Uganda and Kenya, the story is familiar to most people in Africa. This book brings out the practical experiences of a civil servant, the challenges of a cartoonist in a politically sensitive environment, and the struggles to localise humour to a cynical industry. It narrates the drama in starting a media house - the New Vision, a book publishing house - Fountain Publishers, a local-language radio station ñ Radio West, and a museum - Igongo Cultural Centre, all coming amidst lukewarm political support and a sceptical audience.

Author : Shepherd Mpofu
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030819712
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age written by Shepherd Mpofu and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age: Perspectives from the Global South brings to critical and intellectual attention the role of humour in the digital era in the Global South. Many citizens of the Global South live disempowered and precarious lives. Digital media and humour, as chapters in the volume demonstrate, have empowered these citizens through engagement with power and their peers, enabling a pursuit of a better future. Contributors to the volume, while alive to challenges associated with the digital divide, highlight the potentials of social media and humour to engage and seek redress on issues such as corruption, human rights violations, racism and sexism. Contributors expertly analyse memes, videos, cartoons and other social media texts to demonstrate how citizens mimic, disrupt, ridicule and challenge status quo. This book caters for academics and students in media and communication studies, political studies, sociology and Global South studies.

Author : Baba Galleh Jallow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angry Laughter written by Baba Galleh Jallow and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the Orwellian tradition of Animal Farm, Angry Laughter is one of the most biting political satires to come out of Africa. In this tale of dark political intrigue and betrayal, Baba Jallow ridicules the absurd antics of an inept and corrupt civilian government and its removal and replacement by a group of semi-illiterate military saviors', who turn out to be far more absurd, corrupt and brutal than their predecessors. While exceedingly funny and often lighthearted, Angry Laughter awakens us to the cruel excesses of Africa's power-crazed despots, the sorry plight of her oppressed peoples, the very real dangers of civil war and the continent's nauseating politics of brutality. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the nature and dynamics of contemporary African politics and why, in particular, the continent is riddled with bloody civil wars.

Author : Ebenezer Obadare
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 158046551X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria written by Ebenezer Obadare and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an important contribution to the civil society debate in Africa and to the global literature on dissent.

Author : Uche Onyebadi
Publisher : Chrisley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Government & Politricks written by Uche Onyebadi and published by Chrisley. This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new book from the author of the popular and satirical How to Be an African Lady. The book opens: Africa, you know. Politics, you understand. And government, you have a fair idea about what it stands for. But, African Government and Politricks? This is an enigma....should you engage the gear of African Government and Politriks forward, the car moves backward. Search for ethics in this brand of politics, and you shall only come up with antics. And the enigma lives on.' The author goes on to make jibes at first ladies, ministers of misinformation, illiteracy, mis-conduct and in-justice, African style cabinet reshuffles, self-immortalisation, the police farce, military politricks, and sensitive issues such as when African presidents may chose to retire. Uche Onyebadi is a journalist and satirist from Nigeria.

Author : Ignatius Chukwumah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100056293X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexual Humour in Africa written by Ignatius Chukwumah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the types, discourse modes, and effects of sex jokes in different African contexts, in a range of different cultural forms, from the internet to music, books, films, advertising, and images, thus filling the existing void in literature on the subject. Arguing that sex jokes are used to perform a number of functions in African society, the contributors show how they can be used to perpetuate violence against women, construct spaces, resist oppression, create conformity, build affiliations, and subvert morality. They consider jokes from Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, and Zambia in a range of forms including queer sex jokes, rape jokes, performed sex jokes, gendered humour, and resistance sex humour. The book places particular emphasis on the impact of new media platforms and the anonymity they provide. Providing an important analysis of this tabooed but culturally important facet of everyday life, this book will be of interest to scholars of African culture and society from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, gender studies, literary studies, and sociology.