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Africa Every Day - Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent (Paperback) Loot Price: R813
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Africa Every Day - Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent (Paperback): Oluwakemi M Balogun, Lisa Gilman, Melissa...

Africa Every Day - Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent (Paperback)

Oluwakemi M Balogun, Lisa Gilman, Melissa Graboyes, Habib Iddrisu

Series: Research in International Studies, Africa Series

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Africa Every Day presents an exuberant, thoughtful, and necessary counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis in introductory African studies classes on war, poverty, corruption, disease, and human rights violations on the continent. These challenges are real and deserve sustained attention, but this volume shows that adverse conditions do not prevent people from making music, falling in love, playing sports, participating in festivals, writing blogs, telling jokes, making videos, playing games, eating delicious food, and finding pleasure in their daily lives. Across seven sections--Celebrations and Rites of Passage; Socializing and Friendship; Love, Sex, and Marriage; Sports and Recreation; Performance, Language, and Creativity; Technology and Media; and Labor and Livelihoods--the accessible, multidisciplinary essays in Africa Every Day address these creative and dynamic elements of daily life, without romanticizing them. Ultimately, the book shows that forms of leisure and popular culture in Africa are best discussed in terms of indigenization, adaptation, and appropriation rather than the static binary of European/foreign/global and African. Most of all, it invites readers to reflect on the crucial similarities, rather than the differences, between their lives and those of their African counterparts. Contributors: Hadeer Aboelnagah, Issahaku Adam, Joseph Osuolale Ayodokun, Victoria Abiola Ayodokun, Omotoyosi Babalola, Martha Bannikov, Mokaya Bosire, Emily Callaci, Deborah Durham, Birgit Englert, Laura Fair, John Fenn, Lara Rosenoff Gauvin, Michael Gennaro, Lisa Gilman, Charlotte Grabli, Joshua Grace, Dorothy L. Hodgson, Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme, Prince F. M. Lamba, Cheikh Tidiane Lo, Bill McCoy, Nginjai Paul Moreto, Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoue, James Nindi, Erin Nourse, Eric Debrah Otchere, Alex Perullo, Daniel Jordan Smith, Maya Smith, Steven Van Wolputte, and Scott M. Youngstedt.

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Imprint: Ohio University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Research in International Studies, Africa Series
Release date: November 2019
First published: 2019
Editors: Oluwakemi M Balogun • Lisa Gilman • Melissa Graboyes • Habib Iddrisu
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 978-0-89680-324-4
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
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LSN: 0-89680-324-4
Barcode: 9780896803244

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