African Expressive Cultures : African Appropriations : Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media

index 307

oral narrative, 154, 160–161, 171
orientalism, 25, 199–201, 208–214
Orji, Clifford, 187, 275n5 (chap. 6)
Osama Bin La (Nigerian film), 186–187
Oshiwambo language, 235
Osindeko, Adeleke, 80
otherness, 8, 85, 230
Out of Africa (Holly wood film), 208
Owoh, Nkem, 219–220
Oya Oya (Mzungu K ichaa music video),
238, 243
Oyoyo (Zango music video), 145

pagans/paganism, 133, 134, 190
Pains of Love (Nigerian film), 153
Pan-A fricanism, 239
Papua New Guinea, 5
parody, 13, 35
Party Time (W hite Nigerian music video),
238–239
passiones, 52–55
pastiches, 20, 26, 31, 40–41, 42, 92
“pause-and-sketch” technique, 98
Penina—Jezebel ’s Daughter (Tanzanian
film), 274n5 (chap. 5)
Pentecostalism, 8, 80, 116–117, 152, 262
performances, 2, 20, 52, 55
P-Funk Majani, 232
phonograph, 14
photo novels (look-reads), 2, 56, 78; ab-
sence of the political in, 67; French, 59;
Italian, 58, 59; Pan-A frican circulation
of, 3, 80; roots and routes of A frican
photo novels, 57, 59–61; in Tanzania,
154–158, 156; urban middle-class youth
culture and, 76–77
photo-play magazines, 78–79, 80, 272n9
physics, 14
physiology, 14
pictorial journalism, 181
pidgin English, Nigerian, 26, 44, 233,
239, 254
Pillar of Fire (Pentecostal church in the
United States), 117
pirated media, 3, 151, 152; of Cameron’s Ti-
tanic, 22, 111, 116; Kano State Censorship
Board and, 147

Plato, 9–10, 13, 262, 263, 271n1; conception

of mimesis, 39; critique of mimesis, 268;

on simulation, 267

Poetics (A ristotle), 10

“politicsploitation,” 178, 192

postcolonial culture/theory, 19, 268, 278n2

Potolsky, Matthew, 10

Powell, Colin, 189, 190, 276n9 (chap. 7)

power, borrowing of, 17, 20

Power-Mad Tycoon, The (Spearman story), 67

“President” (W hite Nigerian song), 245

Private Affair (Nigerian film), 169

Private Tiémoko (military spirit), 44

Probst, Peter, 178

Prodi, Romano, 227

Producers Guild of Nigeria, 170

Professor Jay (Tanzanian rapper), 232, 237

Professor Rubens (photo-novel

character), 64

Professor Thor (photo-novel character), 62

Program for Societal Reorientation, 139

property, cultural, 17, 18, 271n6

Pui, Davis, 206

Pype, Katrien, 262

Qaddafi, Muammar al-, 193

Qaeda, al-, 173, 176, 182, 187, 192–193

Rabo, Abubakar, 121, 141, 143, 144, 145–146,

274nn4–5

radio, 6, 249, 278n25

Radio Abeokuta, 79–80

Rahman, A. R ., 128

Rai, A ishwarya, 128

Rambo movies, 5

Rano, Sadiya Abdu, 87, 93, 93

Rao, Pratima, 17, 18

“Read/Write” versus “Read/Only” culture, 18

Red Fez, The: Art and Possession in Africa

(K ra mer), 13

redundancy, in oral commentary, 160–161

Relax (Mzungu K ichaa ep), 253

remediations, 2, 7; of Cameron’s Titanic

film, 22, 116; dubbing of foreign films as,

158–162; of Nolly wood films in Tanza-

nia, 154, 157–158; religious, 8

Renaissance, 10–11