Jean-Nicolas Bach

Chairperson, Les Afriques dans le monde

NGO

Ethiopia

jeannicolas_bach@yahoo.fr

Jennifer Bajorek

Associate Professor, Visual Studies, Hampshire College

Contact:

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Jennifer Bajorek

Jerome Liebling Center 106

413.549.4600

Jebha@Hampshire.Edu

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Bajorek, Jennifer. Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.

In Unfixed, Jennifer Bajorek traces the relationship between photography and decolonial political imagination in Francophone west Africa in the years immediately leading up to and following independence from French colonial rule in 1960. Focusing on images created by photographers based in Senegal and Benin, Bajorek draws on formal analyses of images and ethnographic fieldwork with photographers to show how photography not only reflected but also actively contributed to social and political change. The proliferation of photographic imagery—through studio portraiture, bureaucratic ID cards, political reportage and photojournalism, magazines, and more — provided the means for west Africans to express their experiences, shape public and political discourse, and reimagine their world. In delineating how West Africans’ embrace of photography was associated with and helped spur the democratization of political participation and the development of labor and liberation movements, Bajorek tells a new history of photography in west Africa—one that theorizes photography’s capacity for doing decolonial work.

Source: Duke University Press

Bajorek. Jennifer. Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2020.

In Unfixed, Jennifer Bajorek traces the relationship between photography and decolonial political imagination in Francophone west Africa in the years immediately leading up to and following independence from French colonial rule in 1960. Focusing on images created by photographers based in Senegal and Benin, Bajorek draws on formal analyses of images and ethnographic fieldwork with photographers to show how photography not only reflected but also actively contributed to social and political change. The proliferation of photographic imagery — through studio portraiture, bureaucratic ID cards, political reportage and photojournalism, magazines, and more — provided the means for west Africans to express their experiences, shape public and political discourse, and reimagine their world. In delineating how West Africans’ embrace of photography was associated with and helped spur the democratization of political participation and the development of labor and liberation movements, Bajorek tells a new history of photography in west Africa— one that theorizes photography’s capacity for doing decolonial work.

[Source: Duke University Press].

Bakare, Lanre. “Out of Africa: How Netflix’s Ambitions Could Change the Continent’s Cinema.” The Guardian, March 12, 2021.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/12/out-of-africa-how-netflixs-ambitions-could-change-the-continents-cinema

“Last year, Africa produced its first animated feature, made in Nigeria and self-funded. Micro-budget projects have taken off in South Africa, as traditional funding routes become blocked off because of the pandemic. The kind of improvisation and innovation seen on Mosese’s set is a constant on a continent that is – in many regions and areas of cinema – still developing. A new scramble for Africa’s cinema has only just begun.”

[Source: Excerpt from the article].

Bakari, Ishaq Imruh and Mbye B. Cham. African Experiences of Cinema. London: BFI Publishing, 1996.

African Experiences of Cinema brings together important historical documents, contemporary testimonies and critical essays. Film makers, scholars and critics detail their responses to, and experiences of, the challenges of cinema across the African continent.

[Source: Google Books].

Aïsha Baker

Fashion Influencer

South Africa

Level of Influence: International

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Bakrania, Shivit. “Libya: Border Security and Regional Cooperation.” Applied Knowledge Services. GSDRC, August 3, 2015. https://gsdrc.org/publications/libya-border-security-andregional-cooperation/.

This literature review examines security-related developments that determine Libya's relationship with its neighbors—Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Niger, Sudan, and Tunisia. The report looks at the incentives of the neighboring countries' relationships with Libya and the main challenges in implementing or maintaining these regional relationships or cross-border mechanisms with Libya and the main challenges in implementing them. Finally, an overview is provided of international agency contributions to border management and security in the Sahel and Maghreb.

Source: culled from article overview from gsdrc.org