Lusophone Africa

<div><i>Lusophone Africa: Beyond Independence</i> is a study of the contemporary cultural production of Portuguese-speaking Africa and its critical engagement with globalization in the aftermath of colonialism especially since the advent of multiparty politics and market-oriented economies.</div> <div><br> Exploring the evolving relationship of Lusophone Africa with Portugal its former colonial power and Brazil Fernando Arenas situates the countries on the geopolitical map of contemporary global forces. Drawing from popular music film literature cultural history geopolitics and critical theory to investigate the postcolonial condition of Portuguese-speaking Africa Arenas offers an entirely original discussion of world music phenomenon Cesária Évora as well as the most thorough examination to date of Lusophone African cinema and of Angolan post-civil-war fiction.</div> <div><br> Throughout Arenas evokes the rich multidimensionality of this community of African nations as a whole and of its individual parts: Angola Cape Verde Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe since they gained their independence in the mid-1970s. In doing so he puts forth a conceptual framework for understanding for the first time recent cultural and historical developments in Portuguese-speaking Africa.</div>