Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora

1. Introduction.- 2. Rewriting Algeria: Transcultural Kinship and Anticolonial Revolution in Kateb Yacine's L'Homme aux sandales de caoutchou .- 3. Revolution and Revolt: Identitarian Space, Magic, and the Land in Decolonial Latin American and African Writing.- 4. Family Politics: Negotiating the Family Unit as a Creative Force in Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen and Ben Okri's The Famished Road .- 5. Auteuring Nollywood: Rethinking the Movie Director and the Idea of Creativity in the Nigerian Film Industry.- 6. Nollywood in Rio: An Exploration of Brazilian Audience Perception of Nigerian Cinema.- 7. Re-Producing Self, Community, and "Naija" in Nigerian Diaspora Films: Soul Sisters in the United States and Man on the Ground in South Africa.- 8. A Single Story: African Women as Staged in US Theatre.- 9. Sil êncio : Black Bodies, Black Characters, and the Black Political Persona in the Work of the Teatro Negro Group Cia dos Comuns.- 10. New Orleans: America's Creative Crescent.- 11. The Hashtag as Archive: Internet Memes in Nigeria's Social Media Election.- 12. Black Creativity in Jamaica and Its Global Influences: 1930-1987.- 13. Ethics and Aesthetic Creativity: A Critical Reflection on the Moral Purpose of African Art.- 14. From Saartjie to Queen Bey: Black Female Artists and the Global Cultural Industry.