TY - BOOK AU - Olaniyan,Tejumola TI - State and culture in postcolonial Africa: enchantings SN - 9780253029980 PY - 2017/// CY - Bloomington, Indiana PB - Indiana University Press KW - Art and state KW - Africa KW - Cultural policy KW - Civilization KW - 21st century KW - Social conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: State and culture in Africa: the possibilities of strangeness; Tejumola Olaniyan --; Culture and the study of politics in postcolonial Africa; Patrick Chabal --; Joined at the hip: African literature and Africa's body politic; Niyi Osundare --; Philosophy and the state in postcolonial Africa; Olufémi Taiwo --; Soccer and the state: the politics and morality of daily life; Michael G. Schatzberg --; The enchanted history of Nigerian state television; Matthew H. Brown --; "Performing like there's no tomorrow": theater, war, and social vulnerability in Mozambique; Luis Madureira --; Fissures of trespass: women as agents of transgression amid national disenchantment; Nevine El Nossery --; The Sudanese nation and its fragments: Tayeb Salih's literary archaeology; Sofia Samatar --; The African postcolonial predicament: a logic of revenge, prison poetry, and becoming human; Ken Walibora Waliaula --; "Jesus Christ, executive producer": Pentecostal parapolitics in Nollywood films; Akin Adesokan --; Hi-fi sociality, lo-fi sound: affect and precarity in an independent South African recording studio; Louise Meintjes --; Talibe trafficking: the transformation of Koranic teaching in Senegal; Lark Porter --; Tradition of resistance in Nigeria's print media: an example from theNEWS; Kunle Ajibade --; Improvisational characteristics of an urban fragment: Oxford Street, Accra; Ato Quayson --; Gaining ground: squatters and the right to the city; Anne-Maria Makhulu --; African urban garrison architecture: property, armed robbery, para-capitalism; Tejumola Olaniyan ER -