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New Media and Literary Initiatives in Africa (NEMLIA)

Collected by: Indiana University Web Collections

Archived since: Jun, 2013

Description:

A faculty-led initiative affiliated with Indiana University’s African Studies Program, NEMLIA is a project dedicated to exploring the important-but-little-understood relationships between the different modes of literary and media production in literature, film, photography, art, and music and issues of intellectual property, copyright, piracy and access.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Blogs & Social Media Society & Culture Media Literature Africa Film

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Title: The Films of Jean-Marie Teno

URL: http://www.jmteno.us/

Description: Jean-Marie Teno, Africa's preeminent documentary filmmaker, has been producing and directing films on the colonial and post-colonial history of Africa for over twenty years. Films by Jean-Marie Teno have been honored at festivals worldwide.

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Subject:   Film Africa Documentary

Title: The Chimurenga Chronic

URL: http://www.chimurengachronic.co.za/

Description: Published by Chimurenga, the Chronic is a quarterly pan African newspaper that gives voice to all aspects of life on the continent and celebrates our capacity to continually produce something bold, beautiful and full of humour.

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Subject:   Africa Journalism Philosophy Politics Sports

Title: PowerMoneySex

URL: http://powermoneysex.org.za/

Description: The PMS Reader is a productive working space, a public forum, a research platform and an aggregator of ideas, sources and discussion. Contributors from across Africa and the world are invited to describe and re-scribe the links between power, money and sex on this open-source archive, and to examine how the links inform the language we use to imagine, negotiate and experience the multiplex of space, place and self.

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Subject:   Power Money Sex Gender Africa Diaspora

Title: Pan African Space Station

URL: http://www.panafricanspacestation.org.za/

Description: The Pan African Space Station (PASS) is a music platform on the internet and in venues across the African world. PASS is an initiative of Chimurenga and is curated by Ntone Edjabe and Neo Muyanga. In its first 3 years, PASS took the form of a music intervention in venues across Cape Town. Now in its 5th year, PASS continues its cross-cultural and cyber-spatial exploration, bringing together diverse pan-African sounds from ancient techno to future roots.

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Subject:   Music Africa Diaspora

Title: Mainframe Film and Television Production

URL: http://www.mainframemovies.tv/

Description: Mainframe was incorporated in 1992 to serve the following purposes: To promote our rich cultural heritage and moral values both within the country and the outside world at large; To improve the standards of film production in Nigeria; To give technical support to other production houses both within and outside Nigeria.

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Subject:   Film Television Nigeria Media

Title: Literary Map of Africa - Ohio State University Libraries

URL: http://library.osu.edu/projects/african-literature/

Description: The Literary Map of Africa is a bio-bibliographical database, designed to be a comprehensive research and information tool on African literature. It does not focus on selected authors or national / regional literatures, nor does it follow the sometimes rigid North / sub-Saharan Africa divide; instead, the database seeks to cover the whole continent. This wider scope makes it possible for writers from different regions and countries, with varied histories and cultures, and who produce works in diverse African and European languages to be represented in one project. One objective this project hopes to fulfill is to include as many emerging writers as possible, especially those based in Africa. Many in this category of creative writers do not have a readership beyond their national boundaries and are therefore hardly represented in many bibliographies and encyclopedias.

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Subject:   Literature Africa Diaspora

Title: Lagos Book and Arts Festival (LABAF)

URL: http://labaf10.blogspot.de/

Description: The Lagos Book and Art Festival is a comprehensive, four day programme of events; readings, conversations around books, art and craft displays, kiddies’ art workshops and reading sessions, book exhibitions, live music and dance. It will run from November 11th to 14th November 2010 at the large exhibition hall of the National Theatre, Lagos. It is the prime project of the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA), the Cultural 'Landscapists' founded in June 1991 with the mission to create an enabling environment for the flourishing of the contemporary arts of Nigeria and to increase human capacity of the continent. VISION is to make Culture the Prime Investment Destination for the Country and the Continent by 2018.

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Subject:   Festivals Books Arts Crafts Music Dance Nigeria

Title: Committee for Relevant Art (CORA)

URL: http://www.coraartfoundation.com/

Description: The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) came to life on June 2, 1991. It's a culture activist organisation with the agenda to facilitate creation of an enabling environment for the flourishing of the contemporary arts of Nigeria, in the forms of Literature, Theatre, Fine Art, Movie, TV Programme Design and Production as well as Music. 
In these past 17 years, CORA has been at the forefront of championing the major issues that have shaped – directly or otherwise – the cultural landscape of Nigeria. The members operate as a body of facilitators of the sharing of ideas through the creation of the sort of interactions that lead to the birth of ideas or sharpening of existing ideas. Some of the most forward looking initiatives in the Nigerian culture environment came out of CORA-organized fora. 
CORA has carried on this intermediation role through the vehicle of its various programmes, projects and activities.

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Subject:   Literature Theatre Arts Arts Film Television Music Nigeria

Title: Chimurenga Newsroom

URL: http://www.chimurenganewsroom.org.za/

Description: Chimurenga’s new publishing project is a once-off, one-day-only edition of a fictional pan African newspaper to be released on “Black Wednesday”, October 19th 2011 – a historic day in South Africa that marks the banning of numerous Black Consciousness organizations and independent newspapers by the old apartheid regime. Titled The Chimurenga Chronic, the project is an intervention into the newspaper as a vehicle of knowledge production and dissemination. Our sense of history, our sense of what is important and our sense of record are all marked by the newspaper medium. To explore this, the Chimurenga Chronic is backdated to the week of May 18-24 2008, the period marked by the outbreak of so-called xenophobic violence in South Africa. A low-tech time-travel machine, The Chimurenga Chronic seeks to provide an alternative to mainstream representations of history, on the one hand filling the gap in the historical coverage of this event, whilst at the same time reopening it. The objective is not to revisit the past to bring about closure, but rather to provoke and challenge our perceptions.

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Subject:   Journalism History Photography South Africa

Title: Chimurenga Library

URL: http://www.chimurengalibrary.co.za/

Description: Curated by the editors and contributors of Chimurenga Magazine, the Chimurenga Library is an online archiving project that profiles independent pan African paper periodicals from around the world. It focuses on cultural and literary magazines, both living and extinct, which have been influential platforms for dissent and which have broadened the scope for print publishing on art, new writing and ideas in and about Africa.

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Subject:   Journalism Africa Diaspora Arts Writing

Title: Chimurenga

URL: http://www.chimurenga.co.za/

Description: Chimurenga, a pan African publication of writing, art and politics has been in print since March 2002. It was founded by Ntone Edjabe. There are many related projects that can be found on the website. A flowering of organic schools of thought grown in backyard gardens, tilled and fertilised by the fundamentals of humanity preached and sometimes practiced. Fela says, simply: Who no know go know.

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Subject:   Literature Arts Politics Journalism Africa

Title: African Cities Reader

URL: http://www.africancitiesreader.org.za/

Description: African Cities Reader is a biennial publication of urban life, Africa-style.

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Subject:   Literature City Africa Philosophy Ethnography Photography Audio

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