Mungazi, Dickson A.  In the footsteps of the masters: Desmond M. Tutu and Abel T. Muzorewa.  Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000.

The height of colonial rule on the African continent saw two prominent religious leaders’ step to the fore: Desmond Tutu in South Africa, and Abel Muzorewa in Zimbabwe. Both Tutu and Muzorewa believed that Africans could govern their own nations responsibly and effectively if only they were given the opportunity. In expressing their religious views about the need for social justice each man borrowed from national traditions that had shaped policy of earlier church leaders. Tutu and Muzorewa argued that the political development of Africans was essential to the security of the white settlers and that whites should seek the promotion of political development of Africans as a condition of that future security. Desmond Tutu and Abel Muzorewa were both motivated by strong religious principles. They disregarded the possible personal repercussions that they might suffer as a result of their efforts to alter the fundamental bases of their colonial governments. Each man hoped to create a new national climate in which blacks and whites could cooperate to build a new nation. Each played apart in eventual independence for Zimbabwe in 1980 and for South Africa in1994. Mungazi's examination of their efforts reveals how individuals with strong convictions can make a difference in shaping the future of their nations.

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Jane Murago-Munene

Filmmaker/Executive Director, Fepaci

Cinema

Kenya

https://twitter.com/fepaci

Victor Murinde

Director, Center for Global Finance, SOAS

Executive Director, African Economic Research Consortium

Nairobi, Kenya

Email: v.murinde@soas.ac.uk /communications@aercafrica.org

David Murphy

Professor, African culture, cinema, University of Strathclyde

444 8265

d.f.murphy@strath.ac.uk

strath.ac.uk/staff/murphydavidprofessor/

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Murphy, David. Postcolonial African Cinema: Ten Directors. Manchester: University Press, 2007.

This is the first introduction of its kind to an important cross-section of postcolonial African filmmakers from the 1950s to the present. Building on previous critical work in the field, this volume will bring together ideas from a range of disciplines - film studies, African cultural studies, and, in particular, postcolonial studies - in order to combine the in-depth analysis of individual films and bodies of work by individual directors with a sustained interrogation of these films in relation to important theoretical concepts.

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Musa, Bala A. Nollywood in Glocal Perspective. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

This book gives a panoramic view of the rise and growth of Nollywood, Nigeria’s movie and home video entertainment industry, into the second largest and most prolific movie-producing industry in the world. It offers an analysis of Nollywood’s influence as a local and global cultural force. Scholars from Africa, the African Diaspora and beyond examine the factors that have shaped Nollywood’s unique story-telling, production, and distribution system. The volume shows how internal and external economic, social, cultural and technological changes intersect to define Nollywood’s film-making and entertainment ethos. It is grounded in sound theoretical perspectives that help readers understand the texts and subtexts of the industry’s emergence, transformation, and impact. The range of subjects covered span Nollywood’s historical roots in Nigeria pre-colonial traveling/community theatre to colonial era film-making, and its contemporary spin-offs and inspired cousins across Africa and in Europe. It illuminates the interface of artistic, business, cultural and technological innovation and creativity at the heart of Africa’s local and global pop culture explosion.

[Source: Springer].

Music Crossroads International

Non-profit organization

Brussels, Belgium

Contact:

+32 (2) 513 97 74/info@music-crossroads.net

music-crossroads.net

Description:

Music Crossroads is a non-profit organisation which uses the power of music education, professional training, live performances and promotion of young talents to support the development of the music education sector and the music industry in the culturally rich southern African region. It music academies in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, established in 2013, empower talented young musicians with an affordable and innovative music education program and the necessary tools for a career in music. Music Crossroads’ mission is to empower young people in Africa through music!

Music in Africa Foundation

Online music magazine

South Africa

Address: Music In Africa Foundation, 3rd Floor, 158 Jan Smuts Avenue, Johannesburg, South Africa

Contact: Music In Africa Foundation

T: +27 (0)10 140 1317
F: +27 (0)11 442 3738

Website: musicinafrica.net

Description:

The Music In Africa Foundation is a non-profit organization formed on 27 July 2013 in Kenya. Its headquarters is situated in Johannesburg, South Africa with regional bureaus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ghana and Senegal. Its objectives include providing reliable and useful information that promotes the African music sector and its operators, and connecting and promoting exchange between music operators from, or related to, Africa and its diasporas, among several others.

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