Popular culture in Africa : the episteme of the everyday /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
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2014.
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| Series: | Routledge research in cultural and media studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: popular culture in Africa: the episteme of the everyday by Stephanie Newell and Onookome Okome
- Part I. Theoretical overviews
- On creativity in African urban life: African cities as sites of creativity and emancipation by Till Förster
- "Our tradition is a very modern tradition": from cultural tradition to popular culture in south western Nigeria by Will Rea
- Part II. Gender & sexuality in African popular cultures
- Sex and relationship education of the streets: advice on love, sex, and relationships in popular Swahili newspaper columns and pamphlets in Tanzania by Uta Reuster-Jahn
- "The other woman's man is so delicious": performing Sudanese "girls' songs" by Eiman Abbas H. El-Nour
- Bingo: francophone African women and the rise of the glossy magazine by Tsitsi Jaji
- "Better Ghana [agenda]": Akosua's political cartoons and critical public debates in contemporary Ghana by Joseph Oduro-Frimpong
- Desired state: black economic empowerment and the South African popular romance by Christopher Warnes
- Part III. The place of humor
- Standup comedy and the ethics of popular performance in Nigeria by Moradewun Adejunmobi
- Literary insurgence in the Kenyan urban space: Mchongoano and the popular art scene in Nairobi by Miriam Musonye
- Part IV: Popular discourses of the streets
- Music for troubled times: Caiphus Semenya's Nomalanga and Zuluboy's Nomalanga Mntakwethu by Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi
- Archives of the present in Parselelo Kantai's writing by Grace A. Musila
- Heshimu Ukuta: local language radio and the performance of fan culture in Kenya by Peter Simatei
- Football as social unconscious or the cultural logic of late imperialism in postcolonial Nigeria by James Tar Tsaaior
- Part V: Coda
- Lazymen's clinic: a musing on everyday life and Research by Ranka Primorac.