Makmende Understanding the Horn of Africa httpunderstandingthehornorg Martha Saavedra UC Berkeley UC Regents Some Food for thought and fun Consider the next three slides UC Regents ID: 555318
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Popular Culture, Global Knowledge and Kenya’s First Internet Meme - Makmende
Understanding the Horn of Africahttp://understandingthehorn.org/Martha Saavedra, UC Berkeley
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Some Food for thought (and fun)
Consider the next three slides
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http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/
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Meme for whom?
Significance?© UC RegentsSlide7
The birth of Makmende
Sheng for ‘hero’ - Nairobi playgrounds in 1990s (maybe)Spring 2010 – Nairobi Music video Ha He, by
Just a band
is released
Twitter
Inside Joke
Wikipedia
page March 2010
Created…deleted…created…deleted
‘
no reliable sources, and no claims of notability’.
Commentary:
WSJ
,
Ethan Zuckerman
,
CNNFinally established and wikified…BUT no Makmende on Swahili Wikipedia pages (even as of 2019)
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From
Wiki
&
Heather Ford’s, “
The Missing
Wikipedians
”Slide8
Teachable moments…
Connecting and ExposureBreaking through provincialismIs the center moving?Global Mash-ups & Transnational imaginariesAlternative youth expressions and experiences
But…
ever ephemeral…
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Teachable moments…
Knowledge and AuthorityWho creates? Who certifies? Who participates? Local, Global, West
vs
the Rest, Africa
New Media – New Knowledge
Internet cultures –
glocal
?
Does Wikipedia matter?
Using Wikipedia in the classroom
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2019 redux
1/16/19: In discussion about insensitivity of NY Times editorial photo decisions*, Jim Chuchu, one of the directors of the He-Ha
video, tweets about origins of the term “
Makmende
”
https://
twitter.com
/
jimchuchu
/status/1085796439849078786
Disputes CNN and earlier claims on Wikipedia page about Clint Eastwood film connection
By end of thread, someone had edited wiki page.
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Bibliography
Chuchu, Jim, and Mbithi Masya. 2010. Ha-He by Just a Band
.
justbandwidth
.
https://
www.youtube.com
/
watch?v
=_mG1vIeETHc
.
Chuchu
, Jim, 2019 January 16, Twitter post/thread revisiting origin of word “
Makmende
”
https://
twitter.com
/jimchuchu/status/1085796439849078786 Ekdale, Brian, and Melissa Tully. 2014. “Makmende
Amerudi: Kenya’s Collective Reimagining as a Meme of Aspiration.” Critical Studies in Media Communication
31 (4): 283–98.
https://
doi.org
/10.1080/15295036.2013.858823
.
Ford, Heather. 2011. “The Missing
Wikipedians
.”
Hblog.Org
(blog). February 16, 2011.
http://
hblog.org
/2011/02/16/the-missing-
wikipedians
/
.
Lebo, Jackie. 2010. “‘Makmende’ Defines New Kenyan Cool.” The East African, April 5, 2010. https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/Makmende-defines-new-Kenyan-cool/434746-892704-jdl17kz/index.html.“Makmende.” 2019. In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Makmende&oldid=878843562.Mathenge, Oliver. 2010. “Makmende Craze Sweeps the Internet.” Daily Nation, March 24, 2010. https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Makmende-wind-sweeps-the-Internet-/1056-886024-12nkrf1/index.html.Zuckerman, Eathan. 2010. “Makmende’s so Huge, He Can’t Fit in Wikipedia.” March 24, 2010. http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/03/24/makmendes-so-huge-he-cant-fit-in-wikipedia/.
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Credits
Understanding the Hornhttp
://understandingthehorn.org
/
Inspired by
our earlier work on the
UnderstandingSudan.org
, we created this portal to provide university level curriculum on the Horn of Africa
organized around three thematic modules: environmental pressures, conflict management, and youth
.
This PowerPoint was first created for the 25
July
2012, ORIAS
Summer Institute for K-12 teachers ,
Technology
in Human
History
The website Understandingthehorn.org was
developed under a Title VI
International Research and Studies
grant from the U.S. Department of Education. However, the content does not necessarily represent the policy or views of the U.S. Department of Education, or imply endorsement by the Federal Government
.
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