Article: Cultural studies in Africa: positioning difference.

DOES AN AFRICAN cultural studies exist? If so, is it a unified field of study? What links does this domain / domains--or perspectives within it/them--have with the First and Second World metropoles? A perusal of the World Wide Web identifies an explosion of African sites in 1996, mainly from South Africa, in which these questions are occasionally asked, but only partially resolved. (1) The UNISA Web site, for example, has valiantly listed the rather vexing and tense interchange between Christo van Staden (1996, 1997) and Arnold Shepperson (1996) which occurred in Communicatio over African intellectual origins and discussions of cultural studies.

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