- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Prologue
-
1 Orality, the Media and New Popular Cultures in Africa -
2 The Media in Social Development in Contemporary Africa -
3 Language and the Media in Africa: Between the Old Empire and the New -
4 Reflections on the Media in Africa: Strangers in a Mirror? -
5 Africa’s Media: Democracy and Belonging -
6 Representation of Africa in the Western Media: Challenges and Opportunities -
7 Media Consumerism and Cultural Transformation -
8 African Intellectuals in a Hostile Media Environment -
9 Publishing in Africa -
10 Pentecostalism and Modern Audiovisual Media -
11 Rekindling Efficacy: Storytelling for Health -
12 The Media in Education -
13 Horn of Africa and Kenya Diaspora Websites as Alternative Media Sources -
14 Popular Dance Music and the Media -
15 Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films -
16 ‘To Make Strange Things Possible’: The Photomontages of the Bakor Photo Studio in Lamu, Kenya -
17 Musical Images and Imaginations: Tanzanian Music Videos -
18 Political Ridicule: Mediatized Notions of ‘Transparent Concealment’1 -
19 Names, Cloth and Identity: A Case From West Africa -
20 Museums in Africa -
21 Literary Prizes, Book Prizes and African Writing -
22 Innovating ‘Alternative’ Identities: Nairobi Matatu Culture -
23 Bringing Change Through Laughter: Cartooning in Kenya -
24 Demonic Tradition:Representations of Oathing in Newspaper Coverage of the 1997 Crisis in Coastal Kenya1 -
25 Epilogue: In the Name of Similitude - References
- Index
Names, Cloth and Identity: A Case From West Africa
Names, Cloth and Identity: A Case From West Africa
- Chapter:
- (p.226) 19 Names, Cloth and Identity: A Case From West Africa
- Source:
- Media and Identity in Africa
- Author(s):
Michelle Gilbert
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
In the Akwapim kingdom of southeastern Ghana, clothing is used as a form of communication to make statements about personhood and status; to conceal or reveal identity; or to express desires and impulses. This chapter first describes the different types of cloth and the various contexts of their use in Akwapim. It then shows how Akwapim people communicate with one another by wearing judiciously chosen wax-print cloth whose named designs are the equivalent of verbal strategies. Finally, the chapter addresses other categories of the Akwapim naming system that are extensions of the individual or corporate personality, and shows how similar proverbs bridge these various genres.
Keywords: Akwapim kingdom, southeastern Ghana, clothing, Akwapim people, communication, naming system, proverbs
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- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Prologue
-
1 Orality, the Media and New Popular Cultures in Africa -
2 The Media in Social Development in Contemporary Africa -
3 Language and the Media in Africa: Between the Old Empire and the New -
4 Reflections on the Media in Africa: Strangers in a Mirror? -
5 Africa’s Media: Democracy and Belonging -
6 Representation of Africa in the Western Media: Challenges and Opportunities -
7 Media Consumerism and Cultural Transformation -
8 African Intellectuals in a Hostile Media Environment -
9 Publishing in Africa -
10 Pentecostalism and Modern Audiovisual Media -
11 Rekindling Efficacy: Storytelling for Health -
12 The Media in Education -
13 Horn of Africa and Kenya Diaspora Websites as Alternative Media Sources -
14 Popular Dance Music and the Media -
15 Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films -
16 ‘To Make Strange Things Possible’: The Photomontages of the Bakor Photo Studio in Lamu, Kenya -
17 Musical Images and Imaginations: Tanzanian Music Videos -
18 Political Ridicule: Mediatized Notions of ‘Transparent Concealment’1 -
19 Names, Cloth and Identity: A Case From West Africa -
20 Museums in Africa -
21 Literary Prizes, Book Prizes and African Writing -
22 Innovating ‘Alternative’ Identities: Nairobi Matatu Culture -
23 Bringing Change Through Laughter: Cartooning in Kenya -
24 Demonic Tradition:Representations of Oathing in Newspaper Coverage of the 1997 Crisis in Coastal Kenya1 -
25 Epilogue: In the Name of Similitude - References
- Index
