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Book SynopsisThis book considers the ways that representations of Africa have contributed to the changing nature of British national identity. Using interviews, photo archives, media coverage, advertisements, and web material, the book focuses on major Africa campaigns: the abolition of slavery, anti-apartheid, drop the debt, and Make Poverty History. -- .
Trade Review‘This book is an essential reading for anybody interested in the topics of the relation between Africa and Britain, African sovereignty, racism and post colonialism.’
Juliana da Penha, Independent Scholar, British Society for Literature and Science
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Table of Contents1. Representing Africa
2. Putting images into (e)motion: representing Africa through suffering
3. Africa-Britain a short history
4. Africa campaigning in framing: from abolition to 'Make Poverty History'
5. Africa and the search for Britishness
6. Britishness and the search for Africa
7. Representing Africa through the commodity
8. The Year of Africa
9. Concluding thoughts
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