Scripting Kinshasa’s Teleserials Reflections on Authorship, Creativity and Ownership

"Authorship" in the context of Kinshasa's television serials is a complex, multilayered concept. The participation of sacred powers and of the audience as well as the role of improvisation all undermine the idea of one, single author producing a stable script. Based on ethnographic research, this chapter deconstructs the idea of the author, and brings in cultural notions and expectations towards artistic production and also the urban media infrastructure in order to explore creativity, ownership and cultural adaptation in the generation of Kinshasa's fictional television narratives.edition: 1ststatus: publishe