'African': a contested qualifier in global Africa

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Title:	'African': a contested qualifier in global Africa
Editor:	Witte, Marleen de
Year:	2014
Periodical:	African Diaspora: a Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global World (ISSN 1872-5457)
Volume:	7
Issue:	2
Pages:	165-289
Language:	English
City:	Leiden
Publisher:	Brill
Geographic terms:	world Kenya South Africa Jamaica Netherlands
Subjects:	African identity cultural heritage football hairstyles clothing arts
Link:	http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/18725465/7/2
Abstract:	This special issue of African Diaspora focuses on 'Africanness' and the multiple ways in which being 'African' is debated and embodied in today's globalized world. What makes someone or something African? What does it mean to be African? When does someone's or something's Africanness become important? And on whose terms? Contributions: Vuvuzela magic: the production and consumption of 'African' cultural heritage during the FIFA 2010 World Cup (Duane Jethro); 'I am African, iko nini': generational conflict and the politics of being in Nairobi (Rachel Spronk); New roots: Jamaican ontologies of blackness from Africa to the ghetto (Wayne Modest and Rivke Jaffe); Heritage, blackness and afro-cool: styling africanness in Amsterdam (Marleen de Witte). [ASC Leiden abstract]