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Book SynopsisChallenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent.
Table of ContentsForeword, V. Y. Mudimbe
1. Theorising image: a relational approach, Julia Gallagher
2. Constructing images of Africa: from troubled pan-African media to sprawling Nollywood, George Ogola
3. International news and the image of Africa: new storytellers, new narratives?
Mel Bunce
4. ‘Image management’ in east Africa: Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and their donors, Jonathan Fisher
5. Mirrors, mimicry and the spectre of a failed state: how the government of Ethiopia deploys image, Emmanuel Fanta
6. Images of a traditional authority: the case of Ker Kwaro Acholi in northern Uganda, Clare Paine
7. The war of images in the Ivoirian post-electoral crisis: the role of news and online blogs in constructing political personas, Anne Schumann
8. Negotiating narratives of human rights abuses: image management in conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Georgina Holmes
9. Re-imagining Ethiopia: from campaign imagery to contemporary art, Wanja Kimani
10. Silent bodies and dissident vernaculars: representations of the body in South African fiction and film, Lizzy Attree
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