Encounter Images in the Meetings between Africa and Europe

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In 1995 the Nordic Africa Institute initiated a research project on cultural aspects of development and Nordic-African relations. One of the aims was to contribute to providing other images of Africa than the negative images of misery, war and catastrophes often conveyed by the mass media. Another was to encourage cultural aspects of change in Africa, and the dynamics of cultural production itself. It is indisputable that negative images of Africa increasingly dominate everyday reporting and therefore public ...
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In 1995 the Nordic Africa Institute initiated a research project on cultural aspects of development and Nordic-African relations. One of the aims was to contribute to providing other images of Africa than the negative images of misery, war and catastrophes often conveyed by the mass media. Another was to encourage cultural aspects of change in Africa, and the dynamics of cultural production itself. It is indisputable that negative images of Africa increasingly dominate everyday reporting and therefore public opinion too. The generalised pessimistic pictures are in stark contrast to what those of us have experienced who have had the opportunity to visit Africa and work there. It was important not only to encourage alternatives to stereotypes and generalisations, which portrayed Africans as helpless victims, but also to try to understand how and why, and to what extent these images had developed. This was the theme of the first conference organised within the new project on culture, coordinated by Mai Palmberg. This research project was called "Cultural Images in and of Africa", and the seminar dealt primarily with the images of Africa developed in Europe. A selection of edited papers from this seminar is presented here and we thank the authors for their cooperation. We are grateful that we have also been able to include interviews with two prominent scholars, professor V. Y. Mudimbe and professor Terence Ranger, and texts by one of Africa's most prominent authors, Yvonne Vera, and one of the world's most renowned scholars specialising in African literature, Bernth Lindfors.

Positive images of Africa contrast with negative images of misery, war and catastrophes often conveyed by the mass media. This selection of papers debate the images and stereotypes of Africa.

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  • ISBN-13: 9789171064783
  • Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute, The
  • Publication date: 2/28/2001
  • Pages: 278
  • Product dimensions: 6.69 (w) x 9.61 (h) x 0.58 (d)

Meet the Author

Mai Palmberg is a political scientist from Finland, and works at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala. She is coordinator of a research and network project "Cultural Images in and of Africa" and has conducted and edited interviews for "The State of the Arts in Zimbabwe. Some Notes from 2002-2004".

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Table of Contents

Foreword 5
Introduction 7
Questioning the Origins of the Negative Image of Africa in Medieval Europe 20
An Eye-Witness, Hearsay, Hands-On Report from the Gold Coast: Ludewig F. Romer's Tilforladelig Efterretning om Kysten Guinea 37
Hottentot, Bushman, Kaffir: The Making of Racist Stereotypes in 19th-Century Britain 54
Labor Laws and Stereotypes: Images of the Khoikhoi in the Cape in the Age of Abolition 76
"A Gentleman Went to Zanzibar": Racism and Humanism Revisited 96
A Voyeur's Paradise ... Images of Africa 115
Representing the Past in the Present: Memory-texts and Ndebele Identity 121
Gender Dimensions in the Images of Africans in Commercial Works of Art 135
Jungle Drums Striking the World Beat: Africa as an Image Factor in Popular Music 146
Beyond Black and White: Reinterpreting "the Norwegian Missionary Image of the Malagasy" 162
Gendered Images of Africa? The Writings of Male and Female Missionaries 183
Encounter Images in the Meetings between Finland and South-West Africa/Namibia 195
Monkey Business in the Congo 206
The Development Gaze: Visual Representation of Development in Information Material from Danida 221
I Often Tell People I Have Been to Africa ... Swedish-African Encounters through the Aid Relationship 233
Africa remains the absolute difference - An interview 248
I did not set out to deconstruct - An interview 252
Select annotated bibliography 261
About the authors 277
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