PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
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Jesse Weaver Shipley a filmmaker, artist, and scholar. He is currently Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Anthropology and Director of the Africana Studies Program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. This is his first full-length documentary film.
Publications include "Visuality to Postcolonial African Politics: A Conversation with Mohamed Saidou N'Daou" and The Best Tradition Goes On': Popular Theater and Televised Soap in Neo-liberal Ghana."
He is currently completing two book manuscripts on performance in Ghana entitled National Audiences and Consuming Subjects: A Political Genealogy of Performance in Ghana and another called Living and Preaching the Hiplife.
His awards include a Fulbright-IIE Grant Accra, Ghana; Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant; a Residential Fellowship at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, University of Virginia; and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University.
Jesse Weaver Shipley a filmmaker, artist, and scholar. He is currently Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Anthropology and Director of the Africana Studies Program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. This is his first full-length documentary film.
Publications include "Visuality to Postcolonial African Politics: A Conversation with Mohamed Saidou N'Daou" and The Best Tradition Goes On': Popular Theater and Televised Soap in Neo-liberal Ghana."
He is currently completing two book manuscripts on performance in Ghana entitled National Audiences and Consuming Subjects: A Political Genealogy of Performance in Ghana and another called Living and Preaching the Hiplife.
His awards include a Fulbright-IIE Grant Accra, Ghana; Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant; a Residential Fellowship at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, University of Virginia; and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University.