Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)

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Mainstream media and film theory are in keeping with the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and america. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria reasonably than a European nation or america is taken as the place to begin. Concentrating at the Muslim city of Kano in the north of Nigeria, Larkin charts how the material qualities of technologies and the cultural ambitions they represent feed into the on a regular basis experiences of urban Nigeria.

Media technologies were introduced to Nigeria by colonial regimes as a part of an attempt to shape political subjects and create brand new, urban Africans. Larkin considers the introduction of media along side electric plants and railroads as a part of the wider infrastructural project of colonial and postcolonial urbanism. That specialize in radio networks, mobile cinema units, and the building of cinema theaters, he argues that what media come to be in Kano is the outcome of technology’s encounter with the social formations of northern Nigeria and with norms shaped by colonialism, postcolonial nationalism, and Islam. Larkin examines how media technologies produce the modes of leisure and cultural forms of urban Africa by analyzing the circulation of Hindi films to Muslim Nigeria, the leisure practices of Hausa cinemagoers in Kano, and the dynamic emergence of Nigerian video films. His analysis highlights the diverse, unexpected media forms and practices that thrive in urban Africa. Signal and Noise brings anthropology and media together in an original analysis of media’s place in urban life.

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