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Urban legends, colonial myths : popular culture and literature in East Africa / edited by James Ogude & Joyce Nyairo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 2006.Description: vi, 337 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1592214983 (hardcover)
  • 1592214991 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/9676 22
Contents:
East African popular culture : an introduction / James Ogude & Joyce Nyairo -- "Kaa masaa, grapple with spiders" : the myriad threads of Na irobi matatu discourse / Mbugua Wa Mungai -- "We seek it here, we seek it there - that damn'd elusive nandi bear" / Elsie Cloete -- "Christeni ng fiction" : sermonising "the popular" in Whispers / George Ogola -- D emocrazy : laughter in Gado's editorial cartoons (1992-1999) / Grace A. Musila -- "Modify" : Jua Kali as a metaphor for Africa's urban ethnici ties and cultures / Joyce Nyairo -- From the "English country garden" t o "Makambo mibale" : popular culture in Kenya in the mid nineteen sixti es / E.S. Atieno Odhiambo -- "The cat that ended up eating the homestea d chicken" : murder, memory and fabulization in D.O. Misiani's Dissiden t music / James Ogude -- Popular culture in East African literature / C hris Wanjala -- Alternative moral economies, crime and violence in Keny an popular fiction / Tom Odhiambo -- Romance, (in)visibility and agency in Grace Ogot's The strange bride and "The white veil" / Sophie Machar ia -- "Chira" and HIV/AIDS : the (re)construction of sexual moralities in Kenyan popular fiction / Agnes Muriungi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

East African popular culture : an introduction / James Ogude & Joyce Nyairo -- "Kaa masaa, grapple with spiders" : the myriad threads of Na irobi matatu discourse / Mbugua Wa Mungai -- "We seek it here, we seek it there - that damn'd elusive nandi bear" / Elsie Cloete -- "Christeni ng fiction" : sermonising "the popular" in Whispers / George Ogola -- D emocrazy : laughter in Gado's editorial cartoons (1992-1999) / Grace A. Musila -- "Modify" : Jua Kali as a metaphor for Africa's urban ethnici ties and cultures / Joyce Nyairo -- From the "English country garden" t o "Makambo mibale" : popular culture in Kenya in the mid nineteen sixti es / E.S. Atieno Odhiambo -- "The cat that ended up eating the homestea d chicken" : murder, memory and fabulization in D.O. Misiani's Dissiden t music / James Ogude -- Popular culture in East African literature / C hris Wanjala -- Alternative moral economies, crime and violence in Keny an popular fiction / Tom Odhiambo -- Romance, (in)visibility and agency in Grace Ogot's The strange bride and "The white veil" / Sophie Machar ia -- "Chira" and HIV/AIDS : the (re)construction of sexual moralities in Kenyan popular fiction / Agnes Muriungi.

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