Posts Tagged ‘Culture’

Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria

March 4th, 2010

ISBN13: 9780822341086
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point. Concentrating on the Muslim city of Kano in the north of Nigeria, Larkin charts how the material qualities of technologi… More >>

Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria

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“We Were All Slaves: African Miners, Culture, and Resistance at the Enugu Government Colliery, Nigeria

March 2nd, 2010

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A story of the miners who profoundly shaped the process of production, and the rhythms and culture of work and resistance at the Enugu colliery in Nigeria. The author draws comparisons between the experiences of the Enugu miners and their counterparts in Scotland, Wales and northern England…. More >>

“We Were All Slaves: African Miners, Culture, and Resistance at the Enugu Government Colliery, Nigeria

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The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria

February 10th, 2010

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When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter’s The Pan-African Nation tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria’s spectacular rebirth as a rapidly developing petro-state to its dramatic demise when the boom went bust.

According to Apter, FESTAC expande… More >>