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CONTENTS
Notes on Contributors vii
1. Views of the Field
Karin Barber
Introduction 1
Ulf Hannerz
The World in Creolization 12
Johannes Fabian
Popular Culture in Africa: Findings & Conjectures 18
2. Oral Tradition Revisited
David Coplan
Eloquent Knowledge: Lesotho Migrants’ Songs & the Anthropology of Experience 29
Mamadou Diawara
Mande Oral Popular Culture Revisited by the Electronic Media 40
C. A. Waterman
‘Our Tradition is a very Modern Tradition’: Popular Music & the Construction of Pan-Yoruba Identity 48
3. Social History, Social Criticism & Interpretation
Leroy Vail & Landeg White
Plantation Protest: The History of a Mozambican Song 54
Alec J. C. Pongweni
The Chimurenga Songs of the Zimbabwean War of Liberation 63
Andrew Horn
South African Theatre: Ideology & Rebellion 73
Richard Priebe
Popular Writing in Ghana: A Sociology & Rhetoric81
Karin Barber
Popular Reactions to the Petro-Naira 91
Bogumil Jewsiewicki
Painting in Zaire: From the Invention of the West to the Representation of Social Self 99
Werner Graebner
Whose Music? The Songs of Remmy Ongala & the Orchestra Super Matimila 110
4. Women in Popular Culture
Jane Bryce
Women & Modern African Popular Fiction 118
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
Either One or the Other. Images of Women in Nigerian Television 125
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Women in Cultural Work: The Fate of the Kamirnthu People’s Theatre in Kenya 131
Elisabeth Linnebuhr
Kanga: Popular Cloths with Messages 138
5. ‘Little Genres of Everyday Life’
Ropo Sekoni
Politics & Urban Folklore in Nigeria142
Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi
The World of the Yoruba Taxi Driver: An Interpretative Approach to Vehicle Slogans 146
Achille Mbembe
The ‘Thing’ & its Doubles in Cameroonian Cartoons 151
6. The Local & the Global
Ulf Hannerz
Sophiatown: The View from Afar 164
Veit Erlmann
Africa Civilized, Africa Uncivilized: Local Culture, World System & South African Music 170
Index 178