Journal of African Cultural Studies

Nairobi is a shot of whisky1: queer (Ob) scenes in the city

The future of African Studies: what we can do to keep Africa at the heart of our research

Religious and cultural syncretism in FELA!: reading the Broadway adaptation of the life of Fela Anikulapo Kuti through Bill T. Jones and Tejumola Olaniyan

Against collaboration – or the native who wanders off

The emergence of contemporary dance in Africa. A history of Danse l’Afrique danse! biennale

Ethical?! Collaboration?! Keywords for our contradictory times

‘The capacity-building-workshop-in-Africa hokum’*

Televisual cinema and social identities: the case of Nollywood and Latin American telenovelas in Eldoret, Kenya

Latin American telenovelas and African screen media: from reception to production

Making sense of ‘whiteman kontri’ using transnational soap operas

The past and future of Journal of African Cultural Studies

Zombified mobilities: clandestine Afroeuropean journeys in J. R. Essomba’s Le paradis du nord and Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore

Decolonising culture, staging traditional dances, creating a new music-dance genre: the National Ballet of Mali’s postcolonial agency

Towards a (more) gender-responsive model of collaboration

‘They don’t care about us’: representing the black postcolonial subject through the appropriation of Michael Jackson in Gabonese urban dance

North-South dynamics in academia

Miracles from Mexico: Christianity, corporate restructuring, and the telenovela in Nigeria

Global and local media and the making of an Ethiopian national icon

Bending over backwards: dismantling toxic ‘opportunities’

Telenovelas in Uganda: mediating transcultural conversations

Between sitcoms and telenovelas: the unrecognized role of edutainment in defining Ivorian televisual genre

Nigeria’s University Age: Tim Livsey’s History of the Genesis of Nigeria’s Early Tertiary Institutions

Transatlantic connections: reception and production of Nollywood films in Brazil

Crossing in popular music in D.R. Congo: the mixing of English in Lingala lyrics

Dance and decolonisation in Africa: introduction

Enjoying sameness and difference – competition and convergence of Latin American telenovelas and Swahili video films in Tanzania