Populist Reform Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana's Triple Alliance

Oelbaum, Jay

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“…Instead, it is the search for a "horizontal strategy of openness to dialogue among different epistemic traditions," as Mbembe asserts, that goes beyond celebrating self-proclaimed counter-hegemonic financial consolidation that all too often disables a context for struggle through misdirection and privatization of the commons. Ansah (2006), Oelbaum (2002), and from a Malaysian perspective see Gomez and Jomo (1999). The most detailed scholarship about the relationship between Ghanaian cinema and the divestment has been described by Birgit Meyer (2001, 2003a, 2003b; see also Carmela Garritano's work on Ghanaian "video-movies" (2013), and for a related discussion of "concert parties," see Shipley (2004).…”

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The Biopolitics of Media Currency: Transforming the Ghana Film Unit into TV3

Bloom¹

2021

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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This article is an examination and extension of concepts that Achille Mbembe presented in his 2016 African Studies Association Abiola Lecture. In particular, “cognitive assemblages” are elaborated upon to consider how a shifting understanding of media has become part of a neoliberal digital media platform promoted by the Ghanaian state in association with Malaysia. Mbembe’s invocation of the “injunction to decolonize” is also discussed through information capture and data mining to consider the extent to which the promise of a digital future is a form of neo-colonialism or an opportunity for an expanded digital commons.

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