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Arinpe Gbekelol Adejumo, Augustine Agwuele, Antoinette Tidj Alou, Toyin Falola, Celeste A. Fisher, Asonzeh Ukah...

Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture

English · Hardback

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Description

Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.

List of contents

Introduction - Toyin Falola and Augustine Agwuele
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 Yorùbá Bàtá to Bàtá Fújì - 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 Nyamanga 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 A. Forbes-Erickson
Family Health Awareness in Popular Yorùbá Arts - Arinpe Gbekelolu 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
List of Contributors
Index

Summary

Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.

Product details

Authors	Arinpe Gbekelol Adejumo, Augustine Agwuele, Antoinette Tidj Alou, Toyin Falola, Celeste A. Fisher, Asonzeh Ukah
Assisted by	Augustine Agwuele (Editor), Augustine (Royalty Account) Agwuele (Editor), Professor Toyin (Series Editor) Falola (Editor), Toyin Falola (Editor)
Publisher	Boydell & Brewer Ltd.

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	01.12.2009

EAN	9781580463317
ISBN	978-1-58046-331-7
No. of pages	347
Weight	714 g
Illustrations	6 b/w illus.
Series	Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Rochester Studies in African H
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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