Becker, HeikeSchulz, Dorothea17/05/201717/05/20172017Becker, H. & Schulz, D. (2017). Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 29(2): 149-1571369-6815https://hdl.handle.net/10566/2842This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival of cultural and religious identities across the African continent, stretching from post-apartheid South Africa to Islamist groups in parts of West Africa. In the early twenty-first century, Africa appears to be witnessing a historical moment characterized by a resurgence of a politics of difference that, regardless of the heterogeneous forms in which it materializes, shares an uncanny ability to produce and sustain identities based on a politics of difference.enThis is the author-version of the article found online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2017.1295912DifferencePerformanceMediationAfricaCultureReligionArticle