Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 9:52:40 AM
To: USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - new publication
Dear Ken,
L'shana tova!
African Cinema in a Global Age
Wow!
What a grand way to start the sweet & happy new year!
The appreciation has to Global, from the four corners (Tower of Babel) :
Mazel Tov !
Mabrouk !
Badhaee ho ! ( with love from Bollywood)
Mighty Congratulations !
Félicitations!
Grattis !
Gefeliciteerd !
Onnittelut
Oriire !
Ekele !
Eyval !
Re - Your earlier tome Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes @£130.00,
and the introduction which mentions " from the perspective of relativity and quantum mechanics, as Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Stephen Hawking and other physicists" etc, BTW just the mention of "Newtonian classical physics" and "Quantum Physics" gives me goose pimples, and from my perspective , is not for me
As Jesus said or is reported to have said, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled"
Like St. Augustine ( Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth) I'm also hungry and thirsty (dictatorship of our stomachs) for your latest (and greatest?) magnum opus going for only $ 9.75, so as to be affordable by plebs and elect proletariats. Like St. Augustine, hopefully , I also " would not starve" (poor man's diet) you know how it is for us from the other side, shuffering and Shmiling, them belly always full , but we, hungry….
I'm ordering a couple for the Public Library( taxpayers money being put to good use) to join the lone copy of Ojogbon Falola's Counting the Tiger'sTeeth
On the ball: Still global : Let's hope that in another cyclic wave of terror & savagery from the people on the other side, they don't burn down our libraries, mosques and museums. With so much freedom to think, as free as fresh air, I'm thinking of the new wave of antisemitism being tolerated, some say being actively promoted by Elon Musk, his Twitter now renamed X a veritable global hub for the world's oldest hatred, next thing you know ,that sort of thing hits the big screen - in the name of freedom of something
Still in the global age w/matters of great concern. I'm a frequent visitor to ABF - mostly Swedish or International matters and last night, I was at this meeting : Sweden's Palestine policy 1948-2023. Come question time lots of questions from the floor and of course a few humanitarian speeches all sauced with much passionate anti-Zion and ostensibly, not unexpectedly some of the usual anti-Semi foaming from the mouth. During the very last question that was asked last night, when the speaker got to talking about " the apartheid-like Israeli policies" -that's as far as he got at which point accompanied by a streak of lightning from the sky we all heard a dull thud as the chairman / moderator of the evening who was sitting about three rows to the left, in front of me, fell off his chair, motionless unto the floor. The people closest to where he was sitting rushed to his aid, artificial respiration, taking his pulse, phoned for an ambulance. He lay motionless. With a bright mile, the middle-aged Swedish lady sitting next to me , to my right, asked me why I was at the meeting; I told her that I read the Israeli and Palestinian papers almost every day, after which she then told me what I believe she was bursting to tell me, that she had visited Israel six times and had been living in a Palestinian refugee camp. I asked her if the camp she had been living at was in Lebanon or in Israel , she replied that the camp was in the West Bank , and that the West Bank was not in Israel. At that point there was an announcement that we should all leave the premises. She said that she hoped we would meet again soon. Another ten minutes later the ambulance had still not arrived.
I phoned ABF this afternoon to find out how he was but could not get to a knowledgeable source of information .
I have now Googled Anders Bjurner ( I have seen him moderate dozens of meetings) and thank God - he is alive !
If only last night's meeting had been captured on film !
great congrats, Ken.
true, Augustine.
the Ogunbiyi book is priceless. Ken's productions represent mouth watering possiblities.
thanks
toyin
On Tuesday, 19 September 2023 at 10:22:47 UTC+1 Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth wrote:
I should get this. Its affordable at 9.75 dollars.I would not starve.The youths might want to purchase Kenneth's Harrow a book along with Drama and Theatre in nigeria a critical source book by yemi ogunbiyi 2017.these two books are collectors items.you can have them as part of your family library..dear allhappy to announce the appearance of my latest volume with routledge:
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Original Price $48.95Sale Price USD $39.16This book traces the developments in African films that were made from the 1990s to the present within the evolving frame of what came to be called 'World Cinema' and, eventually, 'Global Cinema.'
Kenneth W. Harrow explores how, from the time video and then digital technologies were introduced in the 1990s, and then again, when streaming platforms assumed major roles in producing and distributing film between the 2010s and 2020s, African cinema underwent enormous changes. He highlights how the introduction of the continent's first successful commercial cinema, Nollywood, shifted the focus from engagé films, with social or political messages, to entertainment movies, but also auteur cinema. Harrow explores how this transformation liberated African filmmakers and resulted in an incredible, enduring flow of creative, inventive, and thoughtful filmmaking. This book presents a number of those critical films that mark that trajectory, projecting a new sense of African film spaces and temporalities, while also highlighting how African films continue to find independent pathways.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African cinema and world cinema, as well as researchers specifically examining African cinemas and their relationship to globalization.
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
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