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Introduction: Popular Culture In Africa: The Episteme Of The Everyday By Stephanie Newell And Onookome Okome -- Part I. Theoretical Overviews -- On Creativity In African Urban Life: African Cities As Sites Of Creativity And Emancipation By Till Förster -- 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 The Streets: Advice On Love, Sex, And Relationships In Popular Swahili Newspaper Columns And Pamphlets In Tanzania By Uta Reuster-jahn -- The 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 [agenda]: Akosua's Political Cartoons And Critical Public Debates In Contemporary Ghana By Joseph Oduro-frimpong -- Desired State: Black Economic Empowerment And The South African Popular Romance By Christopher Warnes -- Part Iii. The Place Of Humor -- Standup Comedy And The Ethics Of Popular Performance In Nigeria By Moradewun Adejunmobi -- Literary Insurgence In The Kenyan Urban Space: Mchongoano And The Popular Art Scene In Nairobi By Miriam Musonye -- Part Iv: Popular Discourses Of The Streets -- Music For Troubled Times: Caiphus Semenya's Nomalanga And Zuluboy's Nomalanga Mntakwethu By Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi -- Archives Of The Present In Parselelo Kantai's Writing By Grace A. Musila -- Heshimu Ukuta: Local Language Radio And The Performance Of Fan Culture In Kenya By Peter Simatei -- Football As Social Unconscious Or The Cultural Logic Of Late Imperialism In Postcolonial Nigeria By James Tar Tsaaior -- Part V: Coda -- Lazymen's Clinic: A Musing On Everyday Life And Research By Ranka Primorac. Edited By Stephanie Newell And Onookome Okome. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. London Available Via World Wide Web.