ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF AFRICAN POPULAR CULTURE

 477pp., illus., paperback, Routledge, Abingdon & New York, 2022

ISBN: 9780367532000

A collection of essays by scholars of African popular culture on the production, circulation, consumption, remediation and critique of forms such as newspaper columns, televised English Premier League football, speculative arts, romance fiction, comedy, cinema, music and digital genres.

Contributions include:

"Thirteen Ways of Reading African Popular Culture" by Grace A Musila

"TED Talks, Blogging, and Celebrity: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Popular Imagination" by Steve Almquist

"Matters of Kwaito and Why Kwaito Matters" by Rangoato Hlasane and Bhekizizwe Peterson

"Ethiopian Imprints: Reading and Writing Ethiopia in 1930s South Africa" by Corinne Sandwith

"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Methods of Speculation in African Popular Culture" by Nedine Moonsamy

"Meaning and Multiplicity: Complexity and Play in Tanzanian Hip Hop" by David Kerr

"Modelling Success: Women and Self-Making in Kenyan Digital Spaces" by Dina Ligaga.

Grace A Musila teaches African literature at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is editor of Wangari Maathai’s Registers of Freedom (2020); author of A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder (2015); and co-editor of Rethinking Eastern African Intellectual Landscapes (2012, with James Ogude and Dina Ligaga).