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Africans and the politics of popular culture / edited by Toyin Falola and Augustine Agwuele.

Contributor(s): Falola, Toyin | Agwuele, Augustine
Material type: TextTextSeries: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora: Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2009Description: viii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781580463317; 1580463312Subject(s): Popular culture -- Political aspects -- Africa -- Congresses | Africa -- Civilization -- CongressesDDC classification: 306.2096 LOC classification: DT14 | .A3746 2009Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
From primitive to popular culture : why Kant never made it to Africa / Hetty ter Haar -- Popular culture of Yoruba kinship practices / Augustine Agwuele -- Justice from below : cultural capital, local-global identity processes, and social change in Eastern Niger / Antoinette Tidjani Alou -- Popular culture and the resolution of boundary disputes in the Bamenda Grasslands of Cameroon / Emmanuel M. Mbah -- Reverse mission or asylum Christianity? : a Nigerian church in Europe / Asonzeh Ukah -- Performing pop tradition in Nigeria : from Yoruba Bata to Bata Fuji / Debra L. Klein -- Reclaiming the past or assimilationist rebellion? : transforming the self in contemporary American cinema / Celeste A. Fisher -- Neither bold nor beautiful : investigating the impact of Western soap operas on Kenya / Maurice N. Amutabi -- The lions in the jungle : representations of Africa and Africans in American cinema / Sarah Steinbock-Pratt -- Sexuality in Caribbean performance : homoeroticism and the African body in Trinidad / Denise Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson -- Family health awareness in popular Yoruba arts / Arinpe Adejumo -- Literary cultural nationalists as ambassadors across the diaspora / Nicholas M. Creary -- Popular resistance literature and the Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1955-60 / Tokunbo A. Ayoola.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West DT14 .A3746 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903505903

Papers from the conference "Popular Cultures in Africa," held at the University of Texas at Austin, Mar. 30-Apr. 1, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From primitive to popular culture : why Kant never made it to Africa / Hetty ter Haar -- Popular culture of Yoruba kinship practices / Augustine Agwuele -- Justice from below : cultural capital, local-global identity processes, and social change in Eastern Niger / Antoinette Tidjani Alou -- Popular culture and the resolution of boundary disputes in the Bamenda Grasslands of Cameroon / Emmanuel M. Mbah -- Reverse mission or asylum Christianity? : a Nigerian church in Europe / Asonzeh Ukah -- Performing pop tradition in Nigeria : from Yoruba Bata to Bata Fuji / Debra L. Klein -- Reclaiming the past or assimilationist rebellion? : transforming the self in contemporary American cinema / Celeste A. Fisher -- Neither bold nor beautiful : investigating the impact of Western soap operas on Kenya / Maurice N. Amutabi -- The lions in the jungle : representations of Africa and Africans in American cinema / Sarah Steinbock-Pratt -- Sexuality in Caribbean performance : homoeroticism and the African body in Trinidad / Denise Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson -- Family health awareness in popular Yoruba arts / Arinpe Adejumo -- Literary cultural nationalists as ambassadors across the diaspora / Nicholas M. Creary -- Popular resistance literature and the Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1955-60 / Tokunbo A. Ayoola.

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