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Humour and Politics in Africa

Beyond Resistance

Daniel Hammett author Izuu Nwankwọ author Laura S Martin author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bristol University Press

Published:27th Mar '23

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Analyses of humour often focus primarily on the Global North, with little consideration for examples and practices from elsewhere. This book provides a vital contribution to humour theory by developing a Global South perspective.

Taking a wide-ranging view across the whole of the continent, the book examines the relationship between humour and politics in Africa. It considers the context of the production and reception of humour in African contexts and argues that humour is more than just symbolic. Moving beyond the idea of humour as a mode of resistance, the book investigates the ‘political work’ that humour does and explores the complex entanglements in which the politics, practices and performances of humour are located.

ISBN: 9781529219715

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186 pages