State and culture in postcolonial Africa :  enchantings / 
edited by Tejumola Olaniyan. 
 - vii, 323 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction: State and culture in Africa: the possibilities of strangeness /  Culture and the study of politics in postcolonial Africa /  Joined at the hip: African literature and Africa's body politic /  Philosophy and the state in postcolonial Africa /  Soccer and the state: the politics and morality of daily life /  The enchanted history of Nigerian state television /  "Performing like there's no tomorrow": theater, war, and social vulnerability in Mozambique /  Fissures of trespass: women as agents of transgression amid national disenchantment /  The Sudanese nation and its fragments: Tayeb Salih's literary archaeology /  The African postcolonial predicament: a logic of revenge, prison poetry, and becoming human /  "Jesus Christ, executive producer": Pentecostal parapolitics in Nollywood films /  Hi-fi sociality, lo-fi sound: affect and precarity in an independent South African recording studio /  Talibe trafficking: the transformation of Koranic teaching in Senegal /  Tradition of resistance in Nigeria's print media: an example from theNEWS /  Improvisational characteristics of an urban fragment: Oxford Street, Accra /  Gaining ground: squatters and the right to the city /  African urban garrison architecture: property, armed robbery, para-capitalism /  Tejumola Olaniyan --  Patrick Chabal --  Niyi Osundare --  Olufémi Taiwo --  Michael G. Schatzberg --  Matthew H. Brown --  Luis Madureira --  Nevine El Nossery --  Sofia Samatar --  Ken Walibora Waliaula --  Akin Adesokan --  Louise Meintjes --  Lark Porter --  Kunle Ajibade --  Ato Quayson --  Anne-Maria Makhulu --  Tejumola Olaniyan. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780253029980 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Art and state--Africa.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa--Cultural policy.<br/>Africa--Civilization--21st century.<br/>Africa--Social conditions--21st century.