Analogue Africa

JEREMY HARDING is a Contributing Editor at the London Review of Books. His books include Border Vigils; Small Wars, Small Mercies; and Mother Country.

Jeremy Harding's essays and reportage have established him as one of our most remarkable writers, equally fluent in the languages of aesthetics and international affairs. In Analogue Africa, he is writing at the peak of his powers: eloquent, perceptive, attentive at once to questions of form and to the moral and political stakes involved in the creation of postcolonial culture.

• IntroductionI: Finders KeepersChapter 1: Report from Sirius B: Colonial Curiosity on the RampageChapter 2: A Visitor's Guide to Three Museums-Jungle Fever at Quai Branly-RIP 2000: The British Museum at the Turn of the Century-Decolonisation for Beginners: The AfricaMuseum, TervurenII: Unauthorised VersionsChapter 3: This site is under Reconstruction: Albert Camus and Kamel DaoudChapter 4: Mangy-Dog in Mozambique: Bertina Lopes and Luís Bernardo HonwanaChapter 5: 'Women who struggle': Sarah MaldororIII: A Pathway for the ColonisedChapter 6: The West African Photographer's Studio-One Pose, A Single Exposure: Seydou Keïta, Studio Photographer, Mali-We're dancing tonight: Sanlé Sory, Studio Photographer, Burkina FasoChapter 7: Apartheid in Monochrome-White Dreams and Proprieties: David Goldblatt, Photographer at Large-Raise, Focus, Shoot, Conceal: Ernest Cole, Photographer at LargeIV. RemastersChapter 8: Binyavanga Wainaina: Writer, Sampler, SpamChapter 9: William Kentridge and John Akomfrah-Descent of the Coffee Plunger: William Kentridge -Archive Science: John AkomfrahAdditional SourcesListening Booth