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CONTENTS
Preface ix
Eric Charry
A Capsule History of African Rap 1
Part 1. Rap Stories (Ghana and South Africa)
1. Jesse Weaver Shipley
The Birth of Ghanaian Hiplife: Urban Style, Black Thought,
Proverbial Speech 29
2. Lee Watkins
A Genre Coming of Age: Transformation, Difference,
and Authenticity in the Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture
of South Africa 57
Part 2. Griots and Messengers (Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, and Malawi)
3. Patricia Tang
The Rapper as Modern Griot: Reclaiming Ancient Traditions 79
4. Daniel B. Reed
Promises of the Chameleon: Reggae Artist Tiken Jah Fakoly’s Intertextual Contestation of Power in Côte d’Ivoire 92
5. John Fenn
Style, Message, and Meaning in Malawian Youth Rap and
Ragga Performances 109
Part 3. Identity and Hybridity (Mali and Nigeria)
6. Dorothea E. Schulz
Mapping Cosmopolitan Identities: Rap Music and Male Youth Culture in Mali 129
7. Stephanie Shonekan
Nigerian Hip Hop: Exploring a Black World Hybrid 147
Part 4. East Coast (Kenya and Tanzania)
8. Jean Ngoya Kidula
The Local and Global in Kenyan Rap and Hip Hop Culture 171
9. Alex Perullo
Imitation and Innovation in the Music, Dress, and Camps of Tanzanian Youth 187
Part 5. Popular Music Panoramas (Ghana and Malawi)
10. John Collins
Contemporary Ghanaian Popular Music since the 1980s 211
11. Jochen Seebode
Popular Music and Young Male Audiences in Contemporary
Malawi 234
Part 6. Drumming (Mali)
12. Rainer Polak
Urban Drumming: Traditional Jembe Celebration Music in a West African City (Bamako) 261
Eric Charry
Music for an African Twenty-First Century 283
Bibliography and Online Sources 317
Discography 349
Videography 361
Webography 365
List of Contributors 367
Index 371