Afropolitanism: Reboot
This edited collection comprises an original group of contributions on that much maligned figure, the Afropolitan. The contributors do not aim to define or fix the term anew; the reboot is, instead, the beginnings of an activist scholarly agenda in which the Afropolitan is reimagined to include the stealthy figure crossing the Mediterranean by boat, and the Somali shopkeeper in a South African township. In their pieces included here, the authors insist on the need to ask questions about the inclusion of such globally mobile Africans in any theorisations of the transnational circuits we call Afropolitan. This collection, from some of the foremost voices on Afropolitanism, invigorates anew the debate, and reboots understandings of who the Afropolitan is, the many places she calls her origin, and the multiple places he comes to call home in the world.
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of African Cultural Studies.
Carli Coetzee is the co-editor of Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa (1998) and the author of Accented Futures: Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid (2013). She is the editor of the Journal of African Cultural Studies and a research associate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Afropolitanism: Reboot
This edited collection comprises an original group of contributions on that much maligned figure, the Afropolitan. The contributors do not aim to define or fix the term anew; the reboot is, instead, the beginnings of an activist scholarly agenda in which the Afropolitan is reimagined to include the stealthy figure crossing the Mediterranean by boat, and the Somali shopkeeper in a South African township. In their pieces included here, the authors insist on the need to ask questions about the inclusion of such globally mobile Africans in any theorisations of the transnational circuits we call Afropolitan. This collection, from some of the foremost voices on Afropolitanism, invigorates anew the debate, and reboots understandings of who the Afropolitan is, the many places she calls her origin, and the multiple places he comes to call home in the world.
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of African Cultural Studies.
Carli Coetzee is the co-editor of Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa (1998) and the author of Accented Futures: Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid (2013). She is the editor of the Journal of African Cultural Studies and a research associate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Contents
Citation Information
The chapters in this book were originally published in various issues of the Journal of African Cultural Studies. When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Rethinking African culture and identity: the Afropolitan model
Chielozona Eze
Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 26, issue 2 (June 2014), pp. 243247
Chapter 2
Cosmopolitanism with African roots. Afropolitanisms ambivalent mobilities
Susanne Gehrmann
Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 28, issue 1 (March 2016), pp. 6172
Chapter 3
The politics of Afropolitanism
Amatoritsero Ede
Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 28, issue 1 (March 2016), pp. 88100
Chapter 4
Afropolitanism as critical consciousness: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies and Teju Coles internet presence
Miriam Pahl
Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 28, issue 1 (March 2016), pp. 7387
Chapter 5
Exorcizing the future: Afropolitanisms spectral origins
Stephanie Bosch Santana
Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 28, issue 1 (March 2016), pp. 120126
Chapter 6
Why I am (still) not an Afropolitan
Emma Dabiri
Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 28, issue 1 (March 2016), pp. 104108
Chapter 7
Part-Time Africans, Europolitans and Africa lite
Grace A. Musila
Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 28, issue 1 (March 2016), pp. 109113
Chapter 8
We, Afropolitans
Chielozona Eze
Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 28, issue 1 (March 2016), pp. 114119
Chapter 9
Being-in-the-world: the Afropolitan Moroccan authors worldview in the new millennium
Valrie K. Orlando
Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 25, issue 3 (September 2013), pp. 275291
Chapter 10
Naija boy remix: Afroexploitation and the new media creative economies of cosmopolitan African youth
Krystal Strong and Shaun Ossei-Owusu
Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 26, issue 2 (June 2014), pp. 189205
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Notes on Contributors
Stephanie Bosch Santana is associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA, USA. Her research focuses on South African, Malawian, Zimbabwean, and Zambian fiction from the 1950s to the present day, moving across national, postcolonial and global frameworks.
Carli Coetzee is the co-editor of Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa (1998) and the author of Accented Futures: Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid (2013). She is the editor of the Journal of African Cultural Studies and a research associate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
