Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: popular culture in Africa: the episteme of the everyda y by Stephanie Newell and Onookome Okome -- Part I. Theoretical over views -- On creativity in African urban life: African cities as site s of creativity and emancipation by Till Fèorster -- "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 th e streets: advice on love, sex, and relationships in popular Swahili ne wspaper columns and pamphlets in Tanzania by Uta Reuster-Jahn -- "Th e 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 [age nda]": Akosua's political cartoons and critical public debates in conte mporary Ghana by Joseph Oduro-Frimpong -- Desired state: black econo mic empowerment and the South African popular romance by Christopher Wa rnes -- Part III. The place of humor -- Standup comedy and the et hics of popular performance in Nigeria by Moradewun Adejunmobi -- Li terary insurgence in the Kenyan urban space: Mchongoano and the popular art scene in Nairobi by Miriam Musonye -- Part IV: Popular discours es of the streets -- Music for troubled times: Caiphus Semenya's Nom alanga and Zuluboy's Nomalanga Mntakwethu by Innocentia Jabulisile Mhla mbi -- Archives of the present in Parselelo Kantai's writing by Grac e A. Musila -- Heshimu Ukuta: local language radio and the performan ce of fan culture in Kenya by Peter Simatei -- Football as social un conscious or the cultural logic of late imperialism in postcolonial Nig eria by James Tar Tsaaior -- Part V: Coda -- Lazymen's clinic: a musing on everyday life and Research by Ranka Primorac.