La Peinture Populaire Comme Mode d'ACTION Politique Des Classes Dominées Au Zaïre: 1960–1989

Biaya, Tshikala K.

doi:10.3828/cfc.1990.14.2.014

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“…). As in Kinshasa's other spaces of self-representation, for example paintings (Biaya 1990; Jewsiewicki 2003), television soap operas (Pype 2009) and popular music (White 2008), television news broadcasts can be approached as ‘cultural texts’ that present a particular view of reality and offer occasions for reflections on unfolding political processes. In addition, as I show below, the proximity report offers space for ‘micro-political debates and contestations’, and occupies an important position in Kinshasa's complex political culture as it has taken shape at the dawn of Joseph Kabila's ‘democratic’ reign (from 2006).…”

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Visual media and political communication: reporting about suffering in Kinshasa

Pype

2011

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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Many sub-Saharan African societies have undergone significant political shifts in the last two decades. Changes in political representation and leadership have generated new forms of political mediation and communication. This article interrogates one of the most visible transformations in Kinshasa's political society: television news reports about urban misery, often resulting from a malfunctioning state, in which Kinshasa's inhabitants testify about their difficulties and press fellow citizens, as well as local and national leaders, to bring about change. Exposing suffering is a shame mobilisation strategy, and so becomes a political act. Through the discursive and visual aesthetics of the proximity account, citizens and political leaders are inserted into one political community. The main argument of this article is that the proximity account illustrates a new kind of political communication. In this article I analyse the socio-political contexts in which the proximity report emerged and became popular. I trace the materialisation of this new kind of interaction between political leaders and citizens to the transformation of the late Zaïrian ‘state’, to vernacular understandings of ‘democracy’, and to the influence of NGO activities and Pentecostal Christianity.

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Visual media and political communication: reporting about suffering in Kinshasa

Pype

2011

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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La culture urbaine dans les arts populaires d'Afrique: Analyse de l'ambiance zaïroise

Biaya¹

1996

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des étud

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The "ambiance," as urban hedonism, is the main leisure activity in most African cities. It stimulated a sociability incarnated by the triad mundele, ndumba, and "ambianceur" and their representations in Zaire. The ndumba "femme libre" is a female urban migrant, unemployed single mother, or white colonizer's concubine. She experiences ethnic exile and pays urban taxes for her industry; she is also the bread winner for her family still living in the village. On the other hand, the married woman is a housewife and Christian mother who is kept away from the public sphere. However, the ndumba is a victim of the masculinization of urban politics, missionary sexism, and exclusion from the labour world; paradoxically, she is the ob;ect of men's fantasy and investment. She also incarnates the image of a successful modern woman by imposing herself as the master key of the "ambiance" that she transformed in a "a mode of action." In doing so, she takes revenge over the male powers who generated her. This gender survey is a historical analysis of urban culture through the representations of the woman in the popular urban music and painting of Zaire.

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La Peinture Populaire Comme Mode d'ACTION Politique Des Classes Dominées Au Zaïre: 1960–1989

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Visual media and political communication: reporting about suffering in Kinshasa

Visual media and political communication: reporting about suffering in Kinshasa

La culture urbaine dans les arts populaires d'Afrique: Analyse de l'ambiance zaïroise

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