African Video Movies and Gobal Desires. A Ghanaian History

2019/09/25 2849

Carmela Garritano African Video Movies and Global Desires. A Ghanaian History 2015, Ohio University Press Website African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana’s commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural […]Continue Reading

Picturing Bushmen. The Denver African Expedition of 1925

2019/09/09 1649

Robert J. Gordon Picturing Bushmen. The Denver African Expedition of 1925 OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997 https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Picturing+Bushmen The Denver African Expedition of 1925 sought “the cradle of Humanity.” The explorers returned claiming to have found the “Missing Link” in the Heikum bushmen of the Kalahari—and they proceeded to market this image. As Continue Reading

The African Photographic Archive. Research and Curatorial Strategies

2016/06/28 2912

Christopher Morton, Darren Newbury (Eds) The African Photographic Archive. Research and Curatorial Strategies Bloomsbury, 2016 Publisher Website African photography has emerged as a significant focus of research and scholarship over the last twenty years, the result of a growing interest in postcolonial societies and cultures and a turn towards visual evidence across the Continue Reading

Migrations d’aventures. Terrains africains

2014/04/05 1885

Sylvie Bredeloup Migrations d'aventures. Terrains africains 2014, CTHS Considérer l’aventure comme une clé de lecture permet de jeter un regard décalé sur les migrations africaines et de sortir de l’ombre le caractère incertain et souvent individuel de l’expérience migratoire.Continue Reading