Julia Gallagher is a lecturer in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of LondonJulia Gallagher is a lecturer in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London

• Foreword, V. Y. Mudimbe1. Theorising image: a relational approach, Julia Gallagher2. Constructing images of Africa: from troubled pan-African media to sprawling Nollywood, George Ogola3. International news and the image of Africa: new storytellers, new narratives? Mel Bunce4. ‘Image management’ in east Africa: Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and their donors, Jonathan Fisher5. Mirrors, mimicry and the spectre of a failed state: how the government of Ethiopia deploys image, Emmanuel Fanta6. Images of a traditional authority: the case of Ker Kwaro Acholi in northern Uganda, Clare Paine7. The war of images in the Ivoirian post-electoral crisis: the role of news and online blogs in constructing political personas, Anne Schumann8. Negotiating narratives of human rights abuses: image management in conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Georgina Holmes9. Re-imagining Ethiopia: from campaign imagery to contemporary art, Wanja Kimani10. Silent bodies and dissident vernaculars: representations of the body in South African fiction and film, Lizzy AttreeIndex

Julia Gallagher is a lecturer in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of LondonJulia Gallagher is a lecturer in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London

• Foreword, V. Y. Mudimbe1. Theorising image: a relational approach, Julia Gallagher2. Constructing images of Africa: from troubled pan-African media to sprawling Nollywood, George Ogola3. International news and the image of Africa: new storytellers, new narratives? Mel Bunce4. ‘Image management’ in east Africa: Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and their donors, Jonathan Fisher5. Mirrors, mimicry and the spectre of a failed state: how the government of Ethiopia deploys image, Emmanuel Fanta6. Images of a traditional authority: the case of Ker Kwaro Acholi in northern Uganda, Clare Paine7. The war of images in the Ivoirian post-electoral crisis: the role of news and online blogs in constructing political personas, Anne Schumann8. Negotiating narratives of human rights abuses: image management in conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Georgina Holmes9. Re-imagining Ethiopia: from campaign imagery to contemporary art, Wanja Kimani10. Silent bodies and dissident vernaculars: representations of the body in South African fiction and film, Lizzy AttreeIndex

Julia Gallagher is a lecturer in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of LondonJulia Gallagher is a lecturer in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London

• Foreword, V. Y. Mudimbe1. Theorising image: a relational approach, Julia Gallagher2. Constructing images of Africa: from troubled pan-African media to sprawling Nollywood, George Ogola3. International news and the image of Africa: new storytellers, new narratives? Mel Bunce4. ‘Image management’ in east Africa: Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and their donors, Jonathan Fisher5. Mirrors, mimicry and the spectre of a failed state: how the government of Ethiopia deploys image, Emmanuel Fanta6. Images of a traditional authority: the case of Ker Kwaro Acholi in northern Uganda, Clare Paine7. The war of images in the Ivoirian post-electoral crisis: the role of news and online blogs in constructing political personas, Anne Schumann8. Negotiating narratives of human rights abuses: image management in conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Georgina Holmes9. Re-imagining Ethiopia: from campaign imagery to contemporary art, Wanja Kimani10. Silent bodies and dissident vernaculars: representations of the body in South African fiction and film, Lizzy AttreeIndex