Welcome to a special African media-themed week from In Media Res. We realize that Africa is a very large and diverse space and that, in comparison, this themed-week is both limited in scope and overreaching in its ambitions, but given the dearth of scholarly materials dealing with media from and about this part of the world – particularly online – our aim was to be as inclusive as possible. Please feel free to respond to the contributors’ comments.

This week’s In Media Res line-up:

Monday, April 7, 2008 – Olivier Tchouaffe (University of Texas at Austin) presents: “Bamako”

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 – Brian Larkin (Barnard College) presents: “Projecting Nigeria”

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 – Jude Akudinobi (University of California, Santa Barbara) presents: “Charade, Masquerade and Hollywood’s Africa”

Thursday, April 10, 2008 – Ibrahim Amidou (University of Cincinnati) presents: “Generational Clashes in the Retold Epic Story of “Kéita! The Heritage of the Griot” (1995) by Dani Kouyaté”

Friday, April 11, 2008 – Sada Niang (University of Victoria) presents: “Colonial migrations in Sembene’s La noire de…”

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