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African Studies Quarterly African Studies Quarterly Volume 14, Issue 3 March 2014 Special Issue Fed Up: Creating a New Type of Senegal through the Arts Guest Editors: Molly Krueger Enz and Devin Bryson Published by the Center for African Studies, University of Florida ISSN: 2152-2448 African Studies Quarterly Executive Staff R. Hunt Davis, Jr. - Editor-in-Chief Todd H. Leedy - Associate Editor Emily Hauser - Managing Editor Corinna Greene - Production Editor Anna Mwaba - Book Review Editor Editorial Committee Oumar Ba Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim Lina Benabdallah Therese Kennelly-Okraku Mamadou Bodian Aaron King Jennifer Boylan Nicholas Knowlton Ben Burgen Chesney McOmber Leandra Clough Asmeret G. Mehari Amanda Edgell Stuart Mueller Dan Eizenga Anna Mwaba Timothy Fullman Collins R. Nunyonameh Ryan Good Sam Schramski Victoria Gorham Abiyot Seifu Cari Beth Head Donald Underwood Advisory Board Adélékè Adéèko Richard Marcus Ohio State University California State University, Long Beach Timothy Ajani Kelli Moore Fayetteville State University James Madison University Abubakar Alhassan Mantoa Rose Motinyane Bayero University University of Cape Town John W. Arthur James T. Murphy University of South Florida, St. Clark University Petersburg Lilian Temu Osaki Nanette Barkey University of Dar es Salaam Plan International USA Dianne White Oyler Susan Cooksey Fayetteville State University University of Florida Alex Rödlach Mark Davidheiser Creighton University Nova Southeastern University Jan Shetler Kristin Davis Goshen College International Food Policy Research Roos Willems Institute Catholic University of Leuven Parakh Hoon Peter VonDoepp Virginia Tech University of Vermont Andrew Lepp Kent State University African Studies Quarterly | Volume 14, Issue 3 | March 2014 http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq © University of Florida Board of Trustees, a public corporation of the State of Florida; permission is hereby granted for individuals to download articles for their own personal use. Published by the Center for African Studies, University of Florida. Table of Contents Introduction -- Fed Up: Creating a New Type of Senegal Through the Arts Molly Krueger Enz and Devin Bryson (1-12) The New Type of Senegalese under Construction: Fadel Barro and Aliou Sané on Yenamarrism after Wade Sarah Nelson (13-32) The Rise of a New Senegalese Cultural Philosophy? Devin Bryson (33-56) Nafissatou Dia Diouf’s Critical Look at a “Senegal in the Midst of Transformation” Molly Krueger Enz (57-73) De-centering Theatrical Heritage: Forum Theater in Contemporary Senegal Brian Quinn (75-88) “These Walls Belong to Everybody” The Graffiti Art Movement in Dakar Leslie W. Rabine (89-112) Book Reviews Large-Scale Colonial-Era Dams in Southern Africa Allen Isaacman and Barbara Isaacman. 2013. Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development. Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965–2007. Athens: Ohio University Press. 324pp. Review by Julia Tischler (113-115) Julia Tischler. 2013. Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation The Kariba Dam Scheme in the Central African Federation. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Houndsmills, Basinstroke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. 336pp. Review by Allen Isaacman by (115-117) Additional Reviews Wale Adebanwi and Ebenezer Obadare, eds. 2013. Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria: Critical Interpretations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 300 pp. Review by Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba (117-118) Afe Adogame, Ezra Chitando, and Bolaji Bateye, eds. 2013. African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora and Gendered Societies. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 192 pp. Review by Richardson Addai-Mununkum (119-120) African Studies Quarterly | Volume 14, Issue 3 | March 2014 http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq Peter Alexander, Thapelo Lekgowa, Botsang Mmope, Luke Sinwell, and Bongani Xezwi. 2013. Marikana: Voices from South Africa’s Mining Massacre. Athens: Ohio University Press. 165 pp. Review by Esther Uzar (120-122) Johan Brosche and Daniel Rothbart. 2013. Violent Conflict and Peacebuilding: The Continuing Crisis in Darfur. London & New York: Routledge. 175 pp. Review by Hope Tichaenzana Chichaya (122-123) J.J. Carney. 2014. Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era. New York: Oxford University Press. 343 pp. Review by Jonathan R. Beloff (124-125) Karen E. Ferree. 2011. Framing the Race in South Africa: The Political Origins of Racial Census Elections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 291 pp. Review by Olugbemiga Samuel Afolabi (125-126) David Francis, ed. 2012. When War Ends: Building Peace in Divided Communities. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company. 217 pp. Review by Rasul Ahmed Minja (127-128) Carmela Garritano. 2013. African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History. Athens: Ohio University Press. 246 pp. Review by Nana Osei-Opare (128-129) Trevor Getz, ed. 2014. African Voices of the Global Past: 1500 to the Present. Boulder: Westview Press. 223 pp. Review by Mohamed Adel Manai (130-131) Clive Glaser. 2013. The ANC Youth League. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 168 pp. Review by Steven Gish (131-133) Richard Gray. 2012. Christianity, The Papacy and Mission in Africa. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis. 197 pp. Review by Muhammed Haron (133-134) Gerald Horne. 2012. Mau Mau in Harlem? The U.S. and the Liberation of Kenya. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 334 pp. Reprint Edition. Review by Richard M. Mares (135-136) Hamid Irbouh. 2005. Art in the Service of Colonialism: French Art Education in Morocco, 1912- 1956. New York: I.B. Tauris. 280 pp. Review by Lara Ayad (136-138) Daniel Mains. 2012. Hope is Cut: Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia. Pennsylvania: Temple University Press. 193 pp. Review by Ramphal Sillah (138-139) African Studies Quarterly | Volume 14, Issue 3 | March 2014 http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq Richard C. Marback. 2012. Managing Vulnerability: South Africa’s Struggle for a Democratic Rhetoric. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 138 pp. Review by Emeka Smart Oruh (139-140) Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz. 2013. Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 228 pp. Review by Kate Cowcher (141-142) Niq Mhlongo. 2012. Dog Eat Dog: A Novel. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 222 pp. Review by Rebecca Steiner (142-143) Sasha Newell. 2012. The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 305 pp. Review by Joschka Philipps (143-145) David P. Sandgren. 2012. Mau Mau's Children: The Making of Kenya's Postcolonial Elite. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 185 pp. Review by Frederik Sonner (145-146) Elizabeth Schmidt. 2013. Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror. New York: Cambridge University Press. 267 pp. Review by Felix Kumah-Abiwu (146-148) Jesse Weaver Shipley. 2013. Living The Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music. Durham: Duke University Press. 344 pp. Review by Msia Kibona Clark (148-149) James Howard Smith and Rosalind I. J. Hackett, eds. 2012. Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa. Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 299 pp. Review by Ibukun Ajayi (149-151) Hakeem Ibikunle Tikani. 2012. Union Education in Nigeria: Labor, Empire, and Decolonization since 1945. New York: Palgrave MacMillian. 176 pp. Review by Ryan Driskell Tate (151-153) Mélanie Torrent. 2012. Diplomacy and Nation-Building in Africa: Franco-British Relations and Cameroon at the End of Empire. London: I.B. Tauris. 409 pp. Review by Benedikt Erforth (153-155) Bernard Waites. 2012. South Asia and Africa: Post-colonialism in Historical Perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 456 pp. Review by Kwesi D. L. S. Prah (155-156) African Studies Quarterly | Volume 14, Issue 3 | March 2014 http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq African Studies Quarterly | Volume 14, Issue 3 | March 2014 Introduction Fed Up: Creating a New Type of Senegal Through the Arts MOLLY KRUEGER ENZ and DEVIN BRYSON Present-day Senegal is home to a vibrant cultural milieu that, in many respects, is reflective of that which its first president, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and the Senegalese cultural eminences grises endeavored to promote during the early postcolonial period. As Elizabeth Harney has noted, Senghor “regarded art as a medium of change—a tool that could be used to advance his cultural, political, and economic development plans. Consequently, he envisioned the artist as a representative of and advocate for a new nation.”1 Today, there exists a burgeoning scene of young authors, artists, actors, and musicians who are continuing in this Senghorian cultural tradition by envisioning art as the means to produce social change, but who are also rethinking the type of nation and citizen that would be formed through this intersection of culture and politics. This is not Senghor’s Senegal however. For one thing, the country’s cultural production reflects the fact that over 63 percent of the population is under the age of twenty-five. Furthermore, whereas Senghor generously supported the arts and successfully channeled them to further political stability, Senegal in the twenty-first century has been marked by a more overt tension between politics and the arts. In fact, young Senegalese artists, authors, filmmakers, and musicians are reworking the relationship between politics and the arts to strike against the injustices and indifference they see as endemic to the social and political norms of contemporary Senegalese society.
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