TY - BOOK AU - Newell, Stephanie, AU - Okome, Onookome, AU - Fèorster, Till. TI - Popular culture in Africa: the episteme of the everyday T2 - Routledge research in cultural and media studies SN - 9780415532921 U1 - 306.096 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Popular culture KW - Africa KW - Social epistemology N1 - 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 ER -