Boulou Ebanda de B’béri
Biographic Data
| ID | 6297846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Boulou Ebanda de B’béri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Boulou Ebanda |
| FAMILY NAME | de B’béri |
| SIGNATURE | DE B’BÉRI B E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Black Press
The Black Press brings together original, multidisciplinary research that explores the history and impact of Black newspapers in Canada. This collection of essays introduces readers to the rich archive of Black Canadian journalism, spanning the period from the abolitionist to the modern civil rights era, and reveals the extensive network of African and African-descended activist-journalists. The book positions Black Canadian journalists, editors,…
Global Perspectives on the Politics of Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
Chapter 1 Contextualizing Multiculturalism in the 21st Century Fethi Mansouri and Boulou Ebanda de B'beri Part I: On the Multicultural Episteme Chapter 2 Multiple Multiculturalisms: Encounters and Change in Different Contexts Patrick Imbert Chapter 3 The Ethnicity/Liberalism Contradiction: Reflections on the New Zealand Experience Elizabeth Rata Chapter 4 Cultural Rights in New Multicultural Democracies Felipe Arocena Chapter 5 Harvesting the Gen…
Afropessimism
Afropessimism is an important issue for all Africans as well as for anyone interested in African development and socio-cultural analysis. Although there are bits and pieces and research works on Afropessimism, none has as yet brought it all together in a coherent way. When we decided to undertake this examination of Afropessimism, there is more than one perspective on this phenomenon. In fact, there seem to be at ‘Western construct’. In contradis…
Transgeographical Practices of Marronage in Some African Films
In this article, I mobilize the notion of ‘marronage’ to analyze the ways in which specific practices of representation allow us to observe transgeographical practices of expression in the films of Raoul Peck, Abderrahmane Sissako, and Jean-Marie Téno. I suggest that the works of these three filmmakers are not relational and do not attempt to recuperate colonial and imperial experience in Africa as a means to remind us about the ‘efficacy’ (effec…
The Paradox of National Identity
This paper focuses on the 2006 season of the reality television show Canadian Idol and the manufacturing of Canadian identity. Our analysis looks specifically at the way Canadian identity was articulated in the production of the show, the comments of the judges to contestants, the comments in news releases, and the viewers’ discussions on the message board accompanying the show. We argue that the show produces a version of Canadian identity that …
White America's Construction of Black Bodies
This paper mobilizes the works of Stuart Hall, Colin King, and George Yancy as theoretical lenses for a discursive analysis of a significant sport event that occurred during a Detroit Pistons versus Indiana Pacers National Basketball Association (NBA) game in Auburn Hills, Michigan on December 19, 2004. This event began when Ron Artest, a member of the Indiana Pacers, shoved Detroit Pistons player Ben Wallace after a hard foul. The fight escalate…
Key concepts in the work of Arnold Shepperson
This article is divided into two main sections. The first section exposes the ways in which the work of Shepperson mobilises the concept of communication, while the second focuses on the concept of collaboration. First, we want to show how the work of Shepperson tackles the study of communication, by paradoxically adopting and rearticulating at the same time the theoretical linearity of the sender–receiver model, which was then the widely accepte…
Africanicity in Black Cinema
This essay reviews the conceptual tensions between black cultural and political identity in order to discern new conjunctural ‘practices of identity’ occurring, specifically, in some black films. It suggests that a specific paradigm of communication, such as ‘historical affective re-enactment’, can illustrate the ways in which blacks articulate their identity through the medium of cinema. Examination of this paradigm as a discursive practice of ‘…
The Semeiotic of Africanicity in Gaston Kaboré's film Buud Yam
The film Buud Yam (Gaston Kaboré, 1997) articulates a discursive character suitable for illustrating a semiotics of “Africanicity” in black African cinemas. Through the triadic relation of the signs proposed by Charles S. Peirce and the conjunctural articulation suggested by Stuart Hall, this article wants to unpack the discursive modality of the scriptural articulation, recurrent in Black African cinema. With this methodology, the author illustr…
White America's Construction of Black Bodies
This paper mobilizes the works of Stuart Hall, Colin King, and George Yancy as theoretical lenses for a discursive analysis of a significant sport event that occurred during a Detroit Pistons versus Indiana Pacers National Basketball Association (NBA) game in Auburn Hills, Michigan on December 19, 2004. This event began when Ron Artest, a member of the Indiana Pacers, shoved Detroit Pistons player Ben Wallace after a hard foul. The fight escalate…
Afropessimism
Afropessimism is an important issue for all Africans as well as for anyone interested in African development and socio-cultural analysis. Although there are bits and pieces and research works on Afropessimism, none has as yet brought it all together in a coherent way. When we decided to undertake this examination of Afropessimism, there is more than one perspective on this phenomenon. In fact, there seem to be at ‘Western construct’. In contradis…
Africanicity in Black Cinema
This essay reviews the conceptual tensions between black cultural and political identity in order to discern new conjunctural ‘practices of identity’ occurring, specifically, in some black films. It suggests that a specific paradigm of communication, such as ‘historical affective re-enactment’, can illustrate the ways in which blacks articulate their identity through the medium of cinema. Examination of this paradigm as a discursive practice of ‘…
The Semeiotic of Africanicity in Gaston Kaboré's film Buud Yam
The film Buud Yam (Gaston Kaboré, 1997) articulates a discursive character suitable for illustrating a semiotics of “Africanicity” in black African cinemas. Through the triadic relation of the signs proposed by Charles S. Peirce and the conjunctural articulation suggested by Stuart Hall, this article wants to unpack the discursive modality of the scriptural articulation, recurrent in Black African cinema. With this methodology, the author illustr…
Africanicity in Black Cinema
This essay reviews the conceptual tensions between black cultural and political identity in order to discern new conjunctural ‘practices of identity’ occurring, specifically, in some black films. It suggests that a specific paradigm of communication, such as ‘historical affective re-enactment’, can illustrate the ways in which blacks articulate their identity through the medium of cinema. Examination of this paradigm as a discursive practice of ‘…
Transgeographical Practices of Marronage in Some African Films
In this article, I mobilize the notion of ‘marronage’ to analyze the ways in which specific practices of representation allow us to observe transgeographical practices of expression in the films of Raoul Peck, Abderrahmane Sissako, and Jean-Marie Téno. I suggest that the works of these three filmmakers are not relational and do not attempt to recuperate colonial and imperial experience in Africa as a means to remind us about the ‘efficacy’ (effec…
The Paradox of National Identity
This paper focuses on the 2006 season of the reality television show Canadian Idol and the manufacturing of Canadian identity. Our analysis looks specifically at the way Canadian identity was articulated in the production of the show, the comments of the judges to contestants, the comments in news releases, and the viewers’ discussions on the message board accompanying the show. We argue that the show produces a version of Canadian identity that …
White America's Construction of Black Bodies
This paper mobilizes the works of Stuart Hall, Colin King, and George Yancy as theoretical lenses for a discursive analysis of a significant sport event that occurred during a Detroit Pistons versus Indiana Pacers National Basketball Association (NBA) game in Auburn Hills, Michigan on December 19, 2004. This event began when Ron Artest, a member of the Indiana Pacers, shoved Detroit Pistons player Ben Wallace after a hard foul. The fight escalate…
Key concepts in the work of Arnold Shepperson
This article is divided into two main sections. The first section exposes the ways in which the work of Shepperson mobilises the concept of communication, while the second focuses on the concept of collaboration. First, we want to show how the work of Shepperson tackles the study of communication, by paradoxically adopting and rearticulating at the same time the theoretical linearity of the sender–receiver model, which was then the widely accepte…
Afropessimism
Afropessimism is an important issue for all Africans as well as for anyone interested in African development and socio-cultural analysis. Although there are bits and pieces and research works on Afropessimism, none has as yet brought it all together in a coherent way. When we decided to undertake this examination of Afropessimism, there is more than one perspective on this phenomenon. In fact, there seem to be at ‘Western construct’. In contradis…
Global Perspectives on the Politics of Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
Chapter 1 Contextualizing Multiculturalism in the 21st Century Fethi Mansouri and Boulou Ebanda de B'beri Part I: On the Multicultural Episteme Chapter 2 Multiple Multiculturalisms: Encounters and Change in Different Contexts Patrick Imbert Chapter 3 The Ethnicity/Liberalism Contradiction: Reflections on the New Zealand Experience Elizabeth Rata Chapter 4 Cultural Rights in New Multicultural Democracies Felipe Arocena Chapter 5 Harvesting the Gen…
The Black Press
The Black Press brings together original, multidisciplinary research that explores the history and impact of Black newspapers in Canada. This collection of essays introduces readers to the rich archive of Black Canadian journalism, spanning the period from the abolitionist to the modern civil rights era, and reveals the extensive network of African and African-descended activist-journalists. The book positions Black Canadian journalists, editors,…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Canadian Identity and History (3 works)