index 305“Matsayin Fina-Finan Hausa a Musulunci”
(The place of Hausa films in Islam; Iyan-
Tama), 132–133
Mawri people, 33
Mazarella, William, 7–8
Maziku, Peter (Peen Law yer), 229
McCain, Carmen, 147
McLuhan, Marshall, 6
media, mass, 4–8, 24, 25, 26, 181, 200; appro-
priation as participation in global media
flows, 269–270; bin Laden imagery in,
198; mimesis and, 259–260; as “mimeti-
cally capacious machines,” 14; scamming
operations and, 210–211, 275n3 (chap. 7);
state-owned, 6; Western systems of
knowledge production and, 210
mediation, 2, 4, 98, 219; of alterity, 265;
media anthropology and, 4–8; mimesis
and, 8; spirit possession and, 21; tech-
nologies of, 26
“med ici ne” (magani), 30, 32, 50
Meisler, Stanley, 60, 73, 74, 76, 81
Melville, Herman, 85
Meyer, Birgit, 8
Millerite movement, in North A merica,
109–110
mimesis (imitation), 26, 258, 263; alterity
and, 14, 52–53; as deception, 267–268;
etymolog y and history of, 8–13; inter-
mediary nature of, 261–263; media and,
259–260; mimicry in relation to, 11,
271n2; “rhetorical imitation,” 10; subver-
sive potential of, 12
Mimesis and Alterity (Taussig), 14, 16
Mimesis: Culture, Art, Society (Gebauer and
Wulf), 261
Mimic Men, The (Naipaul), 278n2
mimicry, 11–12, 19, 267, 271n2; of bu-
reaucracy, 20; orientalist, 25, 199–201,
208–214
missionaries, European, 4
Mkamba, Ibrahim, 73, 75–76
Mkapa, Benjamin, 103
Mkasa wa mapenzi ndani Titanic (A ro-
mantic tragedy on the Titanic; Mtani
graphic novel), 94–103, 96, 101–102
Mkwanazi, Joe, 61
modernity, 4, 12, 22, 80; A fromodernity,
264–265; colonial, 21, 42; images of Bol-
ly wood stars and, 179; Islamic, 23; media
and, 5; “parallel modernity,” 24, 147;
spirit possession and, 32; surfacing of
the primitive within, 14; visual, 57
Mofe-Damijo, R ichard, 153
Mohammed, Abdulkareem, 123
Mohammed, Murtala, 54, 193
Motion Pictures Practitioners Association
of Nigeria (moppan), 123, 144, 145
Mozambique, 151
M’piana, Jean-Bedel, 113, 114, 115
Mtani, Joshua A mandus, 94–95, 97–100,
273nn4–5
mtv (Music Television), 86
Mu’azu, Sani, 144
Muhammad (the Prophet), 175, 189, 194
Muhammad, Bala A., 139
Mukandala, Derek Gaspar (Lufufu),
158–162
Mushe spirits, 45, 46
music, 8, 20; audience agency and, 5;
bandiri, 91, 135; choir (kwaya), 104–105,
110; Congolese, 113; “featuring” collabo-
rations, 237–238; film music, 128; Nam
flava (Namibian pop music), 26, 230,
248, 254; Nigerian house and hip-hop,- See also Bongo flava; Kwaito music
music videos, 1, 22, 234, 237–239, 240
musicians, white A frican, 26, 231–233;
(un)doing of difference in A frican popu-
lar music, 229–231, 233–243; cosmo-
politanism and, 20, 255–258; European
audiences and, 247–250; fans and critics
of, 233–234, 243–247; social media and,
250–255. See also EES; Mzungu K ichaa;
W hite Nigerian
Muslims. See Islam and Muslims
Musoma, Tanzania, 1, 4
“M V Bukoba” (Kalikawe song), 103
Mwanza, Tanzania, 4, 75, 95, 100
Mwasiti, 237
“My Heart Will Go On” (Dion song),
86–87, 99–100, 101