An expanding group of Malian TikTok creators amuses its audiences with funny virals, made popular in particular by audio snippets. At the same time, the echoing of content is influenced by Mali’s fragmented context of destabilization and conflict. In this short essay, I question what contemporary audiovisual snapshots depicting war…
read moreRight before the start of summer, team members Samba Dialimpa Badji, Daniel Thilo Schroeder, Bruce Mutsvairo, Mirjam de Bruijn, Modibo Galy Cissé, and Luca Bruls met up at Utrecht University to move publications and output forward. They discussed preliminary results of a survey on TikTok usage in Mali, theorized the…
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