Musila, Grace A. editor. text bibliography nyu New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2000 2022 monographic eng

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xx, 477pages. : 22cm. Introduction : Thirteen Ways of Reading African Popular Culture / Grace A Musila -- Ethiopian Imprints : Reading and Writing Ethiopia in 1930s South Africa / Corinne Sandwith -- Local Authors, Ephemeral Texts: Anglo-Scribes and Anglo-Literates in Early West African Newspapers / Stephanie Newell -- Varieties of Romance in Contemporary Popular Togolese Literature / Susanne Gerhman -- Against 'African Popular Literature' / Ranka Primorac -- Gendering the Popular : FEMRITE and African Popular Culture / Lynda Gichanda Spencer and Erik Falk / Scandals, Controversies and African Literary Prizes : Between Intertextuality and Plagiarism / Doseline Kiguru -- Talkin' TED, Blogging and Celebrity : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Popular Imagination / Steve Almquist -- Flash Fiction Ghana and Popular Culture : An Overview / Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang and Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang -- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle : Methods of Speculation in African Popular Culture / Nedine Moonsamy -- Literature in Africa's Great Lakes region : Between Resistance and Resilience / Maeline le Lay -- Funding Popular Culture in Tanzania : Crowdfunding, Self-Funding and the Live Performance as Fundraiser / Nikitta Dede Adjirakor -- Nigerian film audiences on the Internet : Influences, Preferences and Contentions / Añulika Agina -- 'Don't tell me you want to marry a white man!' : The Encounter with Euro-American Characters and Settings in African Commercial Cinema / Alessandro Jedlowski -- Popular Culture and the Women Fandom of English Premier League Football in Eldoret, Kenya / Solomon Waliaula -- Modelling Success : Women and Self-Making in Kenyan Digital Spaces / Dina Ligaga -- Recognising LGBTQ Faces beyond the Mauritian Nation-State / Ryan Poinsamy -- Coding the City : Mapping Eco-Systems and Zones of Opportunity in Kinshasa's Emerging Tech Scene / Katrien Pype -- Matters of Kwaito and why Kwaito Matters / Rangoato Hlasane and Bhekizizwe Peterson -- Meaning and Multiplicity : Complexity and Play in Tanzanian Hip-Hop / David Kerr -- Music Video, Popular Culture and the Question of the Political / Femi Eromosele -- The Police is Your Friend : Instagram Comedy and the Defamiliarization of the Postcolonial State / James Yeku -- "Di wone wey dey pain me pass...!" : Social Satire, Caricature and Mimicry in the Comic Act of AY / Rotimi Fasan -- #ObinimStickerChallenge : Visual Mediations of Suspicion in Religious Prosumer Parody Media in Contemporary Ghana / Joseph Oduro-Frimpong. edited by Grace A Musila ; foreword by Karin Barber. Includes bibliographical references and index. Popular culture Africa DT14 .R68 2022 New York : Routledge, 2022 (DLC) 2021057259 9780367483869 9780367532000 2021057258 IEN/DLC 211123 20230222145723.0 22320913 eng