Cultural Policy and Cultural Industries in Africa by Last Moyo - 9783031577444

Cultural Policy and Cultural Industries in AfricaFrom Culture as a Commodity to Culture as Praxis\nAuthor(s): Last Moyo\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031577444, 978-3031577444\nSynopsis\nThis book argues for the reconstitution of the cultural in African cultural industries and societies. It posits that African cultural industries face a deep-seated problem of the crisis of normativity that is largely rooted in the coloniality of modern cultural policy and an unconscious, but pervasive anti-Black racism culture in the continent [url] book places hope for re-animating African agency and national cultural identities in the decolonization of cultural policy and cultural industries as consciousness industries. Only through relevant cultural policy, a higher-order cross-institutional moral and ethical value system for reconstituting the cultural in post-colonies, can Africa build truly democratic,.