Publikation

The Short Century
Independence and Liberation
Movements in Africa 1945-1994

Herausgegeben von Okwui Enwezor

Prestel Verlag
München - London - New York, 2001

496 Seiten

Inhalt

Preface

Lenders

Foreword

The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994. An Introduction
Okwui Enwezor

The Surreptitious Speech
Valentin Y. Mudimbe

Beyond Settler and Native as Political Identities: Overcoming the Political Legacy of Colonialism
Mahmood Mamdani

Art

Modern African Art
Chika Okeke

Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994
Marilyn Martin

A Moment of Hope: Cultural Developments in Nigeria before the First Military Coup
Ulli Beier

Cloth / Posters

Colonial Pretense and African Resistance, or Subversion Subverted: Commemorative Textiles in Sub-Saharan Africa
John Picton

Photography

Postcoloniality, Performance, and Photographic Portraiture
Lauri Firstenberg

Architecture

City and Citizenship
Rory Bester

The Ambiguous Modernisms of African Cities
Gwendolyn Wright

Architecture and Nationalism in Africa, 1945-1994
Nnamdi Elleh

Music

Independence, Highlife, Liberation Wars: Lagos 1950s and 1960s
Wolfgang Bender

Theater/Literature

Theater and the Performance of the Nation in Africa
John Conteh-Morgan

The Anatomy of Resistance in South African Theater
Maishe Maponya

Interview with Chinua Achebe
Obiora Udechukwu

The Weapon of Culture: Negritude Literature and the Making of Neocolonial Africa
Chinweizu

Film

The Modernity of African Cinema
Mark Nash

African Cinema and Decolonization
Manthia Diawara

Anthology

Kwame Nkrumah - Patrice Lumumba - Sékou Touré - Kwame Anthony Appiah - Gamal Abdel Nasser - Nelson Mandela - Frantz Fanon - Amilcar Cabral - Léopold Sédar Senghor - Julius Nyerere - Alioune Diop - Rajat Neogy - Njabulo Ndebele - Jean-Paul Sartre - Aimé Césaire - Ben Enwonwu - Wole Soyinka - Jean Rouch/Ousmane Sembène

Manifestos and Resolutions

Appendix

Chronology

Biographies

List of Works

Index

Acknowledgments