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Urban Legends, Colonial Myths

Popular Culture and Literature in East Africa

ISBN-13: 9781592214990

Contributor(s): James Ogude (author), Joyce Nyairo (author)

Subject: African Studies (Regional)

Publisher Imprint: Africa World Press

Publication Date: 02-04-2007

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£29.99

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About the book

A book on popular culture's role in mediating contemporary life and power relations in Africa, it demonstrates that popular cultural productions are not fixed to an unchanging social category as the basis for their creation but are defined by mobility of ideas, creative borrowing and improvisation. The authors also provide a compelling reading of how urban legends, rumours and jokes proliferate alongside pop music to express a sub-culture that is at once a critique and a celebration of modernity and its fragments.