| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 304 pages : illustrations (some color)) |
| Contents |
Part I Culture and Policy -- Tunisia’s Musical Policy: Draft Law, Birth, and Development -- Community Museums for National Integration in Nigeria, 1960–2020 -- Film and Cultural Diplomacy in Postcolonial Africa: Nollywood and the Nigeria Cultural Policy -- Pan-Africanism and Cultural Policy Management: A Formative Evaluation of Nigeria and Ghana’s Cultural Policies -- Dutch-Moroccan Cultural Cooperation? A Discourse on Professional Network -- Promoting Cultural Diplomacy: Nigeria’s National Theatre and the National Troupe in Perspective -- Part II Creative Practice, Soft Power and Diplomacy -- Rewriting Africa’s Single-Story Narrative: Lessons from the Darmasiswa Indonesia Scholarship Program -- Cultural Diplomacy and the Orange Economy in Africa: A Case Study of Nollywood -- Nollywood, the Orange Economy and the Appropriation of Nigeria’s Soft Power -- Pleasure While Flying: Inflight Entertainment as a Medium for Cultural Production and Dissemination -- Fighters, Hunters and Blue-Blood: A Postmodern Reading of African Folk Tales and the Soft Will to Africanize -- Beyond Entertainment: Power and Performance in Two Urban Festivals in Niger -- The National Troupe of Nigeria Post-Ogunde: A Cultural Diplomacy Fad or Farce? -- Afrophobia and Cultural Diplomacy in Nigeria-South Africa Relations: The Role of the Creative Industries -- Part III Cultural Performance and Sustainability -- Tumaini Festival: Cultural Production and Transnational Exchange at Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi -- The Brave Musicians and “Bad-Ass Librarians” of Timbuktu: Culture Fuels Recovery from Conflict -- Tapping into Africa’s Environmental and Cultural Heritage: The Role of Theatre for Development -- Problematic Leisure: The Consequences of engaging European chess in African/Black Schools' curriculum |
| Summary |
This book explores the role of national theatres, cultural centers, cultural policy, festivals, and the film industry as creative and cultural performances hubs for exercising soft power and cultural diplomacy. It offers perspectives on ways existing cultural and non-cultural infrastructures, sometimes referred to as the Orange Economy, can open opportunities for diplomacy and soft power; avenues by which cultural performance and creative practice can be re-centered in post-colonial Africa and in post-global pandemic era; and insights for cultural performers, diplomats, administrators, cultural entrepreneurs, and managers to leverage cultural performance and creative practice on the continent. This volume is positioned within postcolonial discourse to amplify narratives, experiences and realities that are anti-oppressive especially within critical discourse. Taiwo Afolabi, PhD, is a Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre; Director, Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre; an Assistant Professor at the University of Regina, Canada; and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the founding artistic director of Theatre Emissary International, Nigeria. Olusola OGUNNUBI is a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State and a Visiting Scholar with Carleton University, Ottawa. He received his PhD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His research interests include regional studies, comparative foreign policy, corruption in Africa, African regional power politics and soft power diplomacy. Shadrach Teryila Ukuma, PhD, teaches cultural performances at Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria. His doctoral thesis focused on the utilitarian role of cultural performances in managing collective trauma amongst victims of farmer/herder conflicts in Benue State. He currently directs the fast-growing Kyegh Sha Shwa Cultural Festival in Benue State |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
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Cultural industries -- Africa
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Cultural diplomacy -- Africa
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Cultural diplomacy
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Cultural industries
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Cultural policy
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Cultural policy
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Afolabi, Taiwo, editor.
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Ogunnubi, Olusola, editor.
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Ukuma, Shadrach Teryila, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789811906411 |
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9811906416 |
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