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Daraja Press - Africa matters: cultural politics, political economies, & grammars of protest, paperback/pius adebola adesanmi

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Africa Matters: Cultural politics, political economies, & grammars of protest provides a sampling of some of these insightful articles from the first five issues of Nokoko, bringing together some of the pieces that for the editorial board of the journal are particularly perspicacious in their analysis and resonant in their crafting.

Like expressions associated with the Ga word, Nokoko has brought something new, novel, if not surprising and interesting, to the wider publics.

It supports a wider commitment to bring a range of views and voices in and on Africa, some of who are just emerging, all of whose insights are fresh and challenging.

Grouping twelve articles in three sections of this book permits a new dialogue to emerge around the key themes of cultural politics, political economies and grammars of protest.

Their intersection here provides a sharp spotlight on some of the seams, knots, and contestations of varied matters of import for many Africans in the twenty-first century.

As a verb, the authors contribute to teasing out the varied ways Africa is increasingly important in economies, politics, and daily lives for many outside of the continent of Africa even if, perversely, there is a deeper sense of abjection, of rejection by their governments and corporations and deep neglect by those in the Global North and international institutions, by more and more within different parts of Africa.

In its nounal form, the book's chapters trace some of the forms, objects, and lives of differently constituted groups, polities and communities within African and its diasporas.

The Africa matters here range from fashion to literature, entrepreneurs to monetary policy, regional administrative bodies to feminist movements, cellphones to cinema, xenophobic violence to political activism.

The first section of the book explores different dimensions of cultural politics, some of the symbolic significations and sentiments that help motivate, rationalize, dissemble, and constitute.