Joseph Aketema
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 950223 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joseph Aketema |
| NOMBRES | Joseph |
| APELLIDO | Aketema |
| FIRMA | AKETEMA J |
| AFILIACIONES | Television Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1791-1612 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Mothering and Re-positioning Africa
Over many years, director and producer Haile Gerima, a man with profound interest in promoting Afrikan=Black histories and social realities through film, has received global recognition for his ‘Auteuristic’ and Afrikan=Black-Centred filmmaking style. One of his films Teza (2008) has received significant recognition and won several awards, yet it remains underexplored in scholarly discourse. We discuss this film using textual analysis and a histo…
Fourth cinema and Kumawood’s revolutionary turn
Vernacular African cinema has rarely ventured into contemporary political biography, a genre long familiar from Hollywood treatments of leaders such as Mandela and Gandhi. This paper presents a textual and ethnographic analysis of Captain Ibrahim Traoré: The Last African Hero (2025), a Ghanaian feature film marking a paradigmatic shift within Kumawood, the Akan-language video film industry centred on Kumasi. Using Fourth Cinema as both a cinemati…
Fading stereotypes? The mis/fortunes of media products in representing histo-cultural and social realities in Africa
The rapid technological advancements in the audio-visual industry have provided opportunities for individuals and communities to document their lived experiences and preserve their cultural legacies. However, in Ghana and by extension Africa South of the Sahara most indigenous content creators and television networks increasingly privilege Euro-American and Asian productions over local narratives. This preference poses significant risks of cultur…
Who Speak of Women? An Analysis of Character Predicaments and Conflicts in Aníkúlápó (2022)
In most Indigenous African societies, power dynamics and cultural institutional frameworks account for a relatively ‘low’ and ‘docile voices’ of women in traditional settings. Given these situational predicaments, the actions and deeds of women are often opened for inferences most of which could be misleading and culturally invalid. In this paper, I examine Kunle Afolayan’s Aníkúlápó (2022), using textual analysis as a key methodological approach…
Documentary filmmaking as a vessel of lived histo-cultural realities
Reconstructing Africanness in contemporary cinema
Land management and the Bayaa institution
The significantly enduring traditional Kasena-Nankana Bayaase or Bayaaro institution is one of the profound cultural institutions that serve its communities' spiritual and mortal needs in diverse ways. A pall-bearer ritually fortified to execute indigenous morturary and burial practices. This ritual, per its very nature and function, may appear unenticing but is indispensable when it comes to preparing the dead for final travel, and the appeaseme…
Reasserting Tunde Kelani’s Auteurism
Tunde Kelani (TK) is one of the few astute filmmakers of the African continent whose cinematic works defy laid-down artistic styles and conventions. He expresses his cinematic language and narrative styles, which famously pay high credence to Yoruba cosmology, beliefs, and poetic and folkloric narrative elegance. Tunde Kelani’s auteurial and linguistic styles reflect every other artistic work he produces. Apart from giving his audience something …
Challenges of Democracy and Development in Africa, South of the Sahara
Development thrives when democratic principles and governance are exuded by leaders. There is a challenge in the democratisation processes looking at the development deficits of Africa. Postcolonial leaders of Africa, south of the Sahara have struggled desperately to live up to their political expectations—a reason why many would argue, results in the snail pace development of their respective countries. Democracy nourishes strong institutions, t…
Indigenizing, and Developing Africa
The determinants of development of nation states are mostly skewed toward political serenity, abundance of natural resources, and the intellectual and managerial prowess of the human resource. However, the culture of a people and their values are very significant in the development of nation states even if they are yet to be nationalized in the polities of the African state. This article presents the empirical data that was obtained through inter…
Years? Ancestors Disappear! Historical Misorientation and Disorientation in the Year of Return and the 400 Years Narrative
Mꜣꜥt 'Maat', Death and the Afterlife
This study sets out to demonstrate how in classical and traditional Afrikan thought one's afterlife on physical and spiritual planes is thought of as being commensurate with one's adherence to Mꜣꜥt 'Maat' in terms of lived practice rather than simply as an abstract ideal. As such, we will interrogate textual examples from classical Kmt 'The Black Nation/Land of the Blacks' and attested lived examples from contemporary Afrika among the Kasena-Nank…
The media and neo-colonisation
The media and all that it represents have often had insidious content. People have often used the media to promote their own agenda be it in the area of marketing, finance, governance, entertainment and sports. In Africa, foreign media outlets have dwelled so much on Africa. On most occasions, the media content is fraught with damaging content, which only reinforces earlier existing imagery of Africa as backward continent needing forms of confron…
Maat and the rebirth of Kmt ‘Land of Black People’
In this paper we examine Ɔbenfo Mario H. Beatty’s chapter, ‘Maat the Cultural and Intellectual Allegiance of a Concept’ in terms of its articulation of MꜢꜤt ‘Maat’. This examination sets out to delineate how a return to the principles inherent in MꜢꜤt ‘Maat’ can serve to bring about the Wḥm Mswt ‘Rebirth/Renaissance’ of Kmt ‘Land of Black People’ and Kmt(yw) ‘Black People’ economically and politically. This research is significant in that it poin…
Reconstructing Africanness in contemporary cinema
Documentary filmmaking as a vessel of lived histo-cultural realities
Maat and the rebirth of Kmt ‘Land of Black People’
In this paper we examine Ɔbenfo Mario H. Beatty’s chapter, ‘Maat the Cultural and Intellectual Allegiance of a Concept’ in terms of its articulation of MꜢꜤt ‘Maat’. This examination sets out to delineate how a return to the principles inherent in MꜢꜤt ‘Maat’ can serve to bring about the Wḥm Mswt ‘Rebirth/Renaissance’ of Kmt ‘Land of Black People’ and Kmt(yw) ‘Black People’ economically and politically. This research is significant in that it poin…
Maat and the rebirth of Kmt ‘Land of Black People’
In this paper we examine Ɔbenfo Mario H. Beatty’s chapter, ‘Maat the Cultural and Intellectual Allegiance of a Concept’ in terms of its articulation of MꜢꜤt ‘Maat’. This examination sets out to delineate how a return to the principles inherent in MꜢꜤt ‘Maat’ can serve to bring about the Wḥm Mswt ‘Rebirth/Renaissance’ of Kmt ‘Land of Black People’ and Kmt(yw) ‘Black People’ economically and politically. This research is significant in that it poin…
The media and neo-colonisation
The media and all that it represents have often had insidious content. People have often used the media to promote their own agenda be it in the area of marketing, finance, governance, entertainment and sports. In Africa, foreign media outlets have dwelled so much on Africa. On most occasions, the media content is fraught with damaging content, which only reinforces earlier existing imagery of Africa as backward continent needing forms of confron…
Reasserting Tunde Kelani’s Auteurism
Tunde Kelani (TK) is one of the few astute filmmakers of the African continent whose cinematic works defy laid-down artistic styles and conventions. He expresses his cinematic language and narrative styles, which famously pay high credence to Yoruba cosmology, beliefs, and poetic and folkloric narrative elegance. Tunde Kelani’s auteurial and linguistic styles reflect every other artistic work he produces. Apart from giving his audience something …
Challenges of Democracy and Development in Africa, South of the Sahara
Development thrives when democratic principles and governance are exuded by leaders. There is a challenge in the democratisation processes looking at the development deficits of Africa. Postcolonial leaders of Africa, south of the Sahara have struggled desperately to live up to their political expectations—a reason why many would argue, results in the snail pace development of their respective countries. Democracy nourishes strong institutions, t…
Indigenizing, and Developing Africa
The determinants of development of nation states are mostly skewed toward political serenity, abundance of natural resources, and the intellectual and managerial prowess of the human resource. However, the culture of a people and their values are very significant in the development of nation states even if they are yet to be nationalized in the polities of the African state. This article presents the empirical data that was obtained through inter…
Years? Ancestors Disappear! Historical Misorientation and Disorientation in the Year of Return and the 400 Years Narrative
Mꜣꜥt 'Maat', Death and the Afterlife
This study sets out to demonstrate how in classical and traditional Afrikan thought one's afterlife on physical and spiritual planes is thought of as being commensurate with one's adherence to Mꜣꜥt 'Maat' in terms of lived practice rather than simply as an abstract ideal. As such, we will interrogate textual examples from classical Kmt 'The Black Nation/Land of the Blacks' and attested lived examples from contemporary Afrika among the Kasena-Nank…
Land management and the Bayaa institution
The significantly enduring traditional Kasena-Nankana Bayaase or Bayaaro institution is one of the profound cultural institutions that serve its communities' spiritual and mortal needs in diverse ways. A pall-bearer ritually fortified to execute indigenous morturary and burial practices. This ritual, per its very nature and function, may appear unenticing but is indispensable when it comes to preparing the dead for final travel, and the appeaseme…
Who Speak of Women? An Analysis of Character Predicaments and Conflicts in Aníkúlápó (2022)
In most Indigenous African societies, power dynamics and cultural institutional frameworks account for a relatively ‘low’ and ‘docile voices’ of women in traditional settings. Given these situational predicaments, the actions and deeds of women are often opened for inferences most of which could be misleading and culturally invalid. In this paper, I examine Kunle Afolayan’s Aníkúlápó (2022), using textual analysis as a key methodological approach…
Documentary filmmaking as a vessel of lived histo-cultural realities
Reconstructing Africanness in contemporary cinema
Mothering and Re-positioning Africa
Over many years, director and producer Haile Gerima, a man with profound interest in promoting Afrikan=Black histories and social realities through film, has received global recognition for his ‘Auteuristic’ and Afrikan=Black-Centred filmmaking style. One of his films Teza (2008) has received significant recognition and won several awards, yet it remains underexplored in scholarly discourse. We discuss this film using textual analysis and a histo…
Fourth cinema and Kumawood’s revolutionary turn
Vernacular African cinema has rarely ventured into contemporary political biography, a genre long familiar from Hollywood treatments of leaders such as Mandela and Gandhi. This paper presents a textual and ethnographic analysis of Captain Ibrahim Traoré: The Last African Hero (2025), a Ghanaian feature film marking a paradigmatic shift within Kumawood, the Akan-language video film industry centred on Kumasi. Using Fourth Cinema as both a cinemati…
Fading stereotypes? The mis/fortunes of media products in representing histo-cultural and social realities in Africa
The rapid technological advancements in the audio-visual industry have provided opportunities for individuals and communities to document their lived experiences and preserve their cultural legacies. However, in Ghana and by extension Africa South of the Sahara most indigenous content creators and television networks increasingly privilege Euro-American and Asian productions over local narratives. This preference poses significant risks of cultur…
Sociology (9 obras) · African history and culture studies (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Indigenous (6 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Art (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · African cultural and philosophical studies (4 obras) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (4 obras)