Re-centering Cultural Performance and Orange Economy in Post-colonial Africa: Policy, Soft Power, and Sustainability [Paperback]

This book explores the role of national theatres, national cultural centres, cultural policy, festivals, and the film industry as creative and cultural performances hubs for exercising soft power and cultural diplomacy. It shows how can existing cultural and non-cultural infrastructures, sometimes referred to as the Orange Economy, open opportunities for diplomacy and soft power; ways by which cultural performance and creative practice can be re-centered in post-colonial Africa and in post-global pandemic era; and existing structures that cultural performers, diplomats, administrators, cultural entrepreneurs, and managers can leverage to re-enact cultural performance and creative practice on the continent.
This volume is positioned within postcolonial discourse to amplify narratives, experiences and realities that are anti-oppressive especially within critical discourse.Theme I: Culture and Policy.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Tunisia Music Culture Policy: Perspective/Challenges of a States Project.- Chapter 3 Community Museum for National Integration in Nigeria, 1960-2000.- Chapter 4 La r?habilitation de la performance rituelle Melan pour une reconstruction de la spiritualit? originelle du peuple Ekang.- Chapter 5 Pan Africanism and Cultural Policy Management: A Formative Evaluation of Nigeria and Ghana Cultural Policies.- Chapter 6 Ife Art School as a Centre of Decolonization and Decolonial Thinking in Nigerian Visual Art Practice.- Chapter 7 Body Tattoo and Social Communicative Value in Nigeria: A Study of Ogallala Studio of Arts and Tattooing.- Chapter 8 Cultural Policy and Creative Practice in Africa: Impact and Challenges.- Chapter 9 Dutch-Moroccan cultural cooperation? A discourse on network of cultural policy.- Theme II: Creative Practice, Soft power and Diplomacy.- Chapter 10 Rewriting Africas Single-Story Narrative: Lessons from Darmasiswa.- Chapter 11 Something of Value: The Neo-colonial Impulse of l3&