Raoul J. Granqvist is Professor Emeritus of English at the Department of Language Studies, Umeå University.

“Based not least on five years of extensive onsite research, Granqvist has produced a study of Elisofon’s life’s work that is iconoclastic and intellectually challenging. Best, his reading of Elisofon’s photography demands that we reassess our Western perspectives on both the Cold War in Europe and, most pertinently, the legacy of colonialism in Africa. A vigorous, exhaustive, and demanding study.”—John A. Stotesbury, Fellow of the English Association, and former Postcolonial Literary Studies Professor, University of Eastern Finland

• Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. En Route from Scandinavia to Africa, 1942–1944: On Becoming a Trickster with a Hungry Camera and a Loud Mouth Chapter 2. Colonial Travel and Colonial Habits: Early Years, Elisofon in Africa, 1947 and 1951 Chapter 3. African Women Walk, African Men Sit, African Children Are: Gender as Difference, Exclusion, Segregation, and Passage Chapter 4. From Colony to Colonized: Elisofon Fashioning Nigeria Chapter 5. Elisofon’s and LIFE’s Literary Africa: White Mythologies, Racism, and Cold War Politics Chapter 6. The American Broadcasting Company’s Africa, 1966–1967: A Shock of Change and an Updated Safari Chapter 7. The Cold War Affinity between Zaire’s Mobutu Sese Seko and the United States’ Eliot Elisofon Chapter 8. The Politics of the Black African Heritage Series, 1970–1972 Chapter 9. Elisofon Collecting Artifacts and Elisofon Curated: Colonialist Power Conclusion Appendix. LIFE Photo Essays by or with Eliot Elisofon Notes Bibliography Index

Raoul J. Granqvist is Professor Emeritus of English at the Department of Language Studies, Umeå University.

“Based not least on five years of extensive onsite research, Granqvist has produced a study of Elisofon’s life’s work that is iconoclastic and intellectually challenging. Best, his reading of Elisofon’s photography demands that we reassess our Western perspectives on both the Cold War in Europe and, most pertinently, the legacy of colonialism in Africa. A vigorous, exhaustive, and demanding study.”—John A. Stotesbury, Fellow of the English Association, and former Postcolonial Literary Studies Professor, University of Eastern Finland

• Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. En Route from Scandinavia to Africa, 1942–1944: On Becoming a Trickster with a Hungry Camera and a Loud Mouth Chapter 2. Colonial Travel and Colonial Habits: Early Years, Elisofon in Africa, 1947 and 1951 Chapter 3. African Women Walk, African Men Sit, African Children Are: Gender as Difference, Exclusion, Segregation, and Passage Chapter 4. From Colony to Colonized: Elisofon Fashioning Nigeria Chapter 5. Elisofon’s and LIFE’s Literary Africa: White Mythologies, Racism, and Cold War Politics Chapter 6. The American Broadcasting Company’s Africa, 1966–1967: A Shock of Change and an Updated Safari Chapter 7. The Cold War Affinity between Zaire’s Mobutu Sese Seko and the United States’ Eliot Elisofon Chapter 8. The Politics of the Black African Heritage Series, 1970–1972 Chapter 9. Elisofon Collecting Artifacts and Elisofon Curated: Colonialist Power Conclusion Appendix. LIFE Photo Essays by or with Eliot Elisofon Notes Bibliography Index

Raoul J. Granqvist is Professor Emeritus of English at the Department of Language Studies, Umeå University.

“Based not least on five years of extensive onsite research, Granqvist has produced a study of Elisofon’s life’s work that is iconoclastic and intellectually challenging. Best, his reading of Elisofon’s photography demands that we reassess our Western perspectives on both the Cold War in Europe and, most pertinently, the legacy of colonialism in Africa. A vigorous, exhaustive, and demanding study.”—John A. Stotesbury, Fellow of the English Association, and former Postcolonial Literary Studies Professor, University of Eastern Finland

• Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. En Route from Scandinavia to Africa, 1942–1944: On Becoming a Trickster with a Hungry Camera and a Loud Mouth Chapter 2. Colonial Travel and Colonial Habits: Early Years, Elisofon in Africa, 1947 and 1951 Chapter 3. African Women Walk, African Men Sit, African Children Are: Gender as Difference, Exclusion, Segregation, and Passage Chapter 4. From Colony to Colonized: Elisofon Fashioning Nigeria Chapter 5. Elisofon’s and LIFE’s Literary Africa: White Mythologies, Racism, and Cold War Politics Chapter 6. The American Broadcasting Company’s Africa, 1966–1967: A Shock of Change and an Updated Safari Chapter 7. The Cold War Affinity between Zaire’s Mobutu Sese Seko and the United States’ Eliot Elisofon Chapter 8. The Politics of the Black African Heritage Series, 1970–1972 Chapter 9. Elisofon Collecting Artifacts and Elisofon Curated: Colonialist Power Conclusion Appendix. LIFE Photo Essays by or with Eliot Elisofon Notes Bibliography Index