Capital Culturel Africain

Capital Culturel Africain, translated means African Cultural Capital, is a new journal which will work toward increasing, preserving, distributing and creating objectified forms of African cultural capital. These cultural goods can be transmitted physically as an exercise of economic capital, and symbolically as cultural capital. Popularized by Pierre Bourdieu, capital acts as a social relation within a system of exchange, and the term is extended ‘to all the goods material and symbolic, without distinction, that present themselves as rare and worthy of being sought after in a particular social formation (Harker, 1990:13) and cultural capital acts as a social relation within a system of exchange that includes the accumulated cultural knowledge that confers power and status.