1st Edition

Afropolitanism: Reboot

Edited By Carli Coetzee Copyright 2017
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

This edited collection comprises an original and activist group of contributions on that much maligned figure, the Afropolitan. The contributors do not aim to define or fix the term anew; the reboot is, instead, the beginnings of an activist scholarly agenda in which ‘the Afropolitan’ is reimagined to include the stealthy figure crossing the Mediterranean by boat, and the Somali shopkeeper in a... Read more

Introduction Carli Coetzee

1. Rethinking African culture and identity: the Afropolitan model Chielozona Eze

2. Cosmopolitanism with African roots: Afropolitanism’s ambivalent mobilities Susanne Gehrmann

3. The politics of Afropolitanism Amatoritsero Ede

4. Afropolitanism as critical consciousness: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s and Teju Cole’s internet presence Miriam Pahl

5. Exorcising the future: Afropolitanism’s spectral origins Stephanie Bosch Santana

6. ‘Why I am (still) not an Afropolitan’ Emma Dabiri

7. Part-Time Africans, Europolitans and ‘Africa lite’ Grace A. Musilla

8. ‘We, Afropolitans’ Chielozona Eze

9. Being-in-the-world: the Afropolitan Moroccan author’s worldview in the new millennium Valérie K. Orlando

10. Naija boy remix: Afroexploitation and the new media creative economies of cosmopolitan African youth Krystal Strong and Shaun Ossei-Owusu

Biography

Carli Coetzee is the co-editor of Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa (1998) and the author of Accented Futures: Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid (2013). She is the editor of the Journal of African Cultural Studies and a research associate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.