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Joke-Performance in Africa

Author : Ignatius Chukwumah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351668889
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Joke-Performance in Africa by : Ignatius Chukwumah

Download or read book Joke-Performance in Africa written by Ignatius Chukwumah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jokes have always been part of African culture, but never have they been so blended with the strains and gains of the contemporary African world as today. Joke-Performance in Africa describes and analyses the diverse aesthetics, forms, and media of jokes and their performance and shows how African jokes embody the anxieties of the time and space in which they are enacted. The book considers the pervasive phenomenon of jokes and their performance across Africa in such forms as local jests, street jokes, cartoons, mchongoano, ewhe-eje, stand-up comedy, internet sex jokes, and ‘comicast’ transmitted via modern technology media such as the TV, CDs, DVDs, the internet platforms of YouTube, Facebook, and other social arenas, as well as live performances. Countries represented are Egypt, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, and Zambia, covering the North, West, East and Southern Africa. The book explores the description of the joke form from various perspectives, ranging from critical discourse analysis, interviews, humour theories, psychoanalysis, the postcolony and technauriture, to the interactive dramaturgy of joke-performances, irrespective of media and modes of performance. Containing insightful contributions from leading African scholars, the book acquaints readers with detailed descriptions of the diverse aesthetics of contemporary African jokes, thereby contributing to the current understanding of joke-performance in Africa. It will appeal to students and scholars of African studies, popular culture, theatre, performance studies and literary studies.

The Joys of African Sex, Jokes, Courtesies and Idiosyncracies

Author : Boniface Ndemping Wewe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967123851
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book The Joys of African Sex, Jokes, Courtesies and Idiosyncracies written by Boniface Ndemping Wewe and published by . This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Time to Laugh: Jokes & Funny Stories from Africa (6th Edition)

Author : Israel Oyerinde Omotosho
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304511057
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book A Time to Laugh: Jokes & Funny Stories from Africa (6th Edition) written by Israel Oyerinde Omotosho and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-12-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this book, Prince Israel Oyerinde Omotosho, has compiled more than 120 jokes and short stories for your enjoyment. The jokes and stories are contextually based in Nigeria, West Africa. They will make you laugh till your ribs protest!

Stand-up Comedy in Africa

Author : Izuu Nwankwọ
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838216083
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Book Synopsis Stand-up Comedy in Africa by : Izuu Nwankwọ

Download or read book Stand-up Comedy in Africa written by Izuu Nwankwọ and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African cultural productions of humour have increased even in the face of myriad economic foibles and social upheavals. For instance, from the 1990s, stand-up comedy emerged across the continent and has maintained a pervasive presence since then. Its specificities are related to contemporary economic and political contexts and are also drawn from its pre-colonial history, that of joking forms and relationships, and orality. Izuu Nwankwọ's fascinating collected volume offers a transnational appraisal of this unique art form spanning different nations of the continent and its diasporas. The book engages variously with jokesters, their materials, the mediums of dissemination, and the cultural value(s) and relevance of their stage work, encompassing the form and content of the practice. Its ruling theoretical perspective comes from theatre and performance, cultural studies, linguistics, and literary studies.

Sexual Humour in Africa

Author : Ignatius Chukwumah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100056293X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Humour in Africa written by Ignatius Chukwumah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the types, discourse modes, and effects of sex jokes in different African contexts, in a range of different cultural forms, from the internet to music, books, films, advertising, and images, thus filling the existing void in literature on the subject. Arguing that sex jokes are used to perform a number of functions in African society, the contributors show how they can be used to perpetuate violence against women, construct spaces, resist oppression, create conformity, build affiliations, and subvert morality. They consider jokes from Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, and Zambia in a range of forms including queer sex jokes, rape jokes, performed sex jokes, gendered humour, and resistance sex humour. The book places particular emphasis on the impact of new media platforms and the anonymity they provide. Providing an important analysis of this tabooed but culturally important facet of everyday life, this book will be of interest to scholars of African culture and society from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, gender studies, literary studies, and sociology.

The Comedian's Playbook

Author : Pusch K
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502487872
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book The Comedian's Playbook written by Pusch K and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most hilarious jokes on the planet. Guaranteed to make you fall off your chair.

Humour and Politics in Africa

Author : Daniel Hammett
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529219728
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Humour and Politics in Africa written by Daniel Hammett and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses of humour often focus primarily on the Global North, with little consideration for examples and practices from elsewhere. This book provides a vital contribution to humour theory by developing a Global South perspective. Taking a wide-ranging view across the whole of the continent, the book examines the relationship between humour and politics in Africa. It considers the context of the production and reception of humour in African contexts and argues that humour is more than just symbolic. Moving beyond the idea of humour as a mode of resistance, the book investigates the ‘political work’ that humour does and explores the complex entanglements in which the politics, practices and performances of humour are located.

Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture

Author : Grace A Musila
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000588343
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture written by Grace A Musila and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in this handbook index the genres, methods, mediums, questions and encounters that preoccupy producers, consumers and scholars of African popular cultural forms across a range of geohistorical and temporal contexts. Drawing on forms such as newspaper columns, televised English Premier League football, speculative arts, romance fiction, comedy, cinema, music and digital genres, the contributors explore the possibilities and ambiguities unleashed by the production, circulation, consumption, remediation and critique of these forms. Among the questions explored across these essays are the freedoms and constraints of popular genres; the forms of self-making, pleasure and harm that these imaginaries enable; the negotiations of multiple moral regimes in everyday life; and, inevitably, the fecund terrain of contradictions definitive of many popular forms, which variously enable and undermine world-making. An authoritative scholarly resource on popular culture in Africa, this handbook is an essential read for students and scholars of African culture, society and media.

African Folklore

Author : Philip M. Peek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135948739
Total Pages : 1256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book African Folklore written by Philip M. Peek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.

An Ethnopragmatic Study of Jokes and Joking in an Akan Community

Author : David Adu-Amankwah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Ethnopragmatic Study of Jokes and Joking in an Akan Community written by David Adu-Amankwah and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Food Security for Rural Africa

Author : Terry Leahy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351134132
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Food Security for Rural Africa written by Terry Leahy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At least fifty years of projects aimed at the rural poor in Africa have had very little impact. Up to half of the children of these countries are still suffering from stunting and malnutrition. Soil degradation and poor crop yields are ubiquitous. Projects are almost always aimed at helping local people to solve their problems by growing for the market. In some countries, projects link poor villagers into cooperatives to produce a commercial output. In other countries, projects target more competent entrepreneurial villagers. Almost all these projects fail after several years. Even those that are successful make few inroads into the problems. While the slogan 'feeding the farmers first' comes from the Philippines, it is particularly applicable to much of Africa, where household food security can come from household production. This book explains how projects can be designed that increase food security through subsistence production. Focusing on particular people and projects, it gives a sociological analysis of why this is so difficult to manage. This book challenges the models promoted by academics in the field of development studies and argues against the strategies adopted by most donor organizations and government bodies.It explains why commercial projects have been so ubiquitous even though they rarely work. It gives practical tips on how to set up villages and farms to achieve sustainable solutions that also provide plenty of nutritious food. The book is written to be accessible and engaging. For anyone planning to work in the rural areas of Africa, this book is required reading.

Unfolding Narratives of Ubuntu in Southern Africa

Author : Julian Müller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351055801
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Unfolding Narratives of Ubuntu in Southern Africa written by Julian Müller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ubuntu is the African idea of personhood: persons depend on other persons in order to be. This is summarised in the expression: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, that is, a person is a person through persons. This edited collection illustrates the power of fictionalised representation in reporting research conducted on Ubuntu in Southern Africa. The chapters insert the concept of Ubuntu within the broad intellectual debate of self and community, to demonstrate its intellectual and philosophical value and theoretical grounding in known practices emanating from the African continent, and indeed how it works to unsettle some of our received notions of the self.

The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Lena von Naso
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351271784
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Lena von Naso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: News coverage on Africa is closely connected not only with how Western audiences see the continent, but also with how a wide Western audience builds its opinion on issues that carry consequences for the public's and governments' support and policy towards development aid. The Western media reinforce a picture of a continent that drowns in chaos, is dominated by conflicts, diseases, corruption and failed democratisation. Whose interests lie behind that? How does foreign news on sub-Saharan Africa emerge, which actors are relevant in its making, and on the basis of what interests do these actors shape the coverage that is then presented as 'neutral information' to a broad international audience? Closely examining the relationship between foreign correspondents of international news media and humanitarian organisations, Lena von Naso shows how the aid and media sectors cooperate in Africa in a unique way. Based on more than 70 interviews with foreign correspondents and aid workers operating across Africa, the book argues that the changing nature of foreign news and of aid is forcing them to form a deep co-dependency that is having a serious and largely unnoticed effect on Western news coverage. This comprehensive examination of a new paradigm will interest students and scholars of media and journalism, African studies, development and humanitarian studies and the aid and media communities operating across Africa.

The Linguistics of Humor

Author : Salvatore Attardo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198791275
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Linguistics of Humor written by Salvatore Attardo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor, exploring not only theoretical linguistic analyses, but also topics from applied linguistics. It will be a valuable resource for students from advanced undergraduate level upwards, particularly those coming to linguistics from related disciplines.

African Science Education

Author : Jamaine Abidogun
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351668994
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book African Science Education written by Jamaine Abidogun and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interrogation and review of historical and current cultural and indigenous knowledge combined with extensive curriculum and classroom analysis, this book identifies how indigenous science gender roles may be utilized to provide a more gender balanced and indigenous centered learning experience. The book argues for the integration of African indigenous science into the secondary school curriculum as a way to strengthen students’ science comprehension by affirming their society’s science contributions, making clear connections between Indigenous and Western science, and also as a way to promote female representation in the sciences. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of science education, African education, and indigenous knowledge.

African Language Digital Media and Communication

Author : Abiodun Salawu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351120409
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book African Language Digital Media and Communication written by Abiodun Salawu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While some academic attention has been paid to the impact of new digital technologies on African media in the colonial languages of English, French and Portuguese, there is a dearth of research into African language digital communication. This book analyses the online presence of African language media. The chapters in the book focus on the speed, structure, content, navigation and interactivity, operations and performance, and audience of the online media. They also pay particular attention to how social media such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp have been appropriated by African language media. Using a wide range of case studies, the contributors assess the challenges of adopting digital technologies by the media, and how the technologies have impacted journalistic practice and media operations. Examining the ability of the African language press to adopt new technologies, this book will be of interest to scholars of media, journalism, communication, social media and culture in Africa.

Arab Women's Revolutionary Art

Author : Nevine El Nossery
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031217241
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Arab Women's Revolutionary Art written by Nevine El Nossery and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa have re-imagined revolutionary discourses through creativity and collective action as a means of resistance. Encompassing a stunning array of forms and genres, such as graffiti, street performance, photography, phototexts, novels, and comics, the book draws from a vast spectrum of artistic production in revolutionary periods between 2011 and 2022 in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria. El Nossery sheds light on women’s postrevolutionary artistic output by engaging an interdisciplinary approach: the book is divided into three sections which foreground the unique relationship between textual, visual, and performative modes as they intertwine with art and politics. Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art thereby aims to demonstrate how art, as always oriented towards an open future, can preserve the revolutionary spirit that was sparked in 2011 by documenting what happened and determining which stories would be told. The revolution, therefore, continues.