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Les vidéo-clips ne sont pas souvent l'objet d'une lecture scientifique bien qu'ils reflètent des modes de perceptions identitaires et bien qu'ils soient le vecteur populaire de l'expression du refus, de l'espoir ou de l'idéologie politique. Plaque sensible artistique d'une société en mutation, ces clips présentent l'avantage de leur fluidité et de leur souplesse. La dimension émotionnelle dont ils sont chargés accroît même l'efficacité de leur message. Denis Martin leur rend ici leur place d'indices importants des transformations et des représentations sociales dans une Afrique du Sud en pleine mutation.

Multipartyism for what ? the limits of political debate ? kenya, uganda, tanzania, zimbabwe.
Demands for democracy go far beyond the quest for multyparty systems in Africa. On one hand, this involves knowing whether the population will be able to participate in policymaking, and, on the other, it means considering the development issue in terms of African reality and to put forward indigenous solutions.

South African music : a fuzzy triplet...
South African music can be perceived as the aesthetical embodiment of a broader dream of cultural unity expressed in different representations and ideologies. History shows that it grew out of many contacts between South Africa's different communities ; today's musical forms blend characters borrowed from their cultural traditions. But, because of segregation and apartheid, South African popular music, in spite of its mixity, has acquired a «black» identity that leads supporters of the «white» powers to categorize its practitioners and fans alike as «pro-African» or «anti-apartheid». What is the most complete expression of the common history of South African peoples has therefore been put into the hands of the African majority which is, now, the only group liable to give it back to South Africa as a whole. In this particular respect, as in some others, music participates in the struggle for the liberation of South Africa.