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Analogue Africa
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Product details
- ISBN 9781804295946
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Africa is a convenient abbreviation for 54 countries in which more than a thousand languages are spoken. This book offers a side-long glance, one that complicates the idea of a single continent. So much of what we understand about these places comes from western media sources, which too often treat Africa as a metaphor for their own anxieties. Yet, by picking out specific episodes and practices - cinema, art, ethnography and journalism -- Harding rescues us, and Africa, from such patronising generalisations.
Analogue Africa excavates the many facets of the anti-colonial imagination: cinema, photography, art and journalism. The book celebrates the ingenuity with which African artists - and a handful of Europeans -- have reimagined the colonial encounter and the struggle against white minority rule . This includes artists, filmmakers and photographers such as John Akomfrah, William Kentridge, Binyavanga Wainaina, Seydou Keïta, Sanlé Sory and Sarah Maldoror. Harding also looks at the role of western museums - The British Museum, the Musée du quai Branly, Tervuren- that display African art, and what it says about the post colonial imagination.
Analogue Africa excavates the many facets of the anti-colonial imagination: cinema, photography, art and journalism. The book celebrates the ingenuity with which African artists - and a handful of Europeans -- have reimagined the colonial encounter and the struggle against white minority rule . This includes artists, filmmakers and photographers such as John Akomfrah, William Kentridge, Binyavanga Wainaina, Seydou Keïta, Sanlé Sory and Sarah Maldoror. Harding also looks at the role of western museums - The British Museum, the Musée du quai Branly, Tervuren- that display African art, and what it says about the post colonial imagination.
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books. His books include The Uninvited: Refugees at the Rich Man's Gate, Small Wars, Small Mercies, and Mother Country.
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