Theorising image: a relational approach -- Constructing images of Africa: from troubled pan-African media to sprawling Nollywood -- International news and the image of Africa: new storytellers, new narratives? -- 'Image management' in east Africa: Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and their donors -- Mirrors, mimicry and the spectre of a failed state: how the government of Ethiopia deploys image -- Images of a traditional authority: the case of Ker Kwaro Acholi in northern Uganda -- The war of images in the Ivoirian post-electoral crisis: the role of news and online blogs in constructing political personas -- Negotiating narratives of human rights abuses: image management in conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo -- Re-imagining Ethiopia: from campaign imagery to contemporary art -- Silent bodies and dissident vernaculars: representations of the body in South African fiction and film
Summary
This title challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent
