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