0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R1,000 - R2,500 (1)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 1 of 1 matches in All Departments

Africa Every Day - Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent (Hardcover): Oluwakemi M Balogun, Lisa Gilman, Melissa... Africa Every Day - Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent (Hardcover)
Oluwakemi M Balogun, Lisa Gilman, Melissa Graboyes, Habib Iddrisu
R1,890 Discovery Miles 18 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Law Of Damages Through The Cases
P.J. Visser, J.M. Potgieter Paperback R1,276 R1,101 Discovery Miles 11 010
Equip 2-Port UTP Unshielded Wallbox…
R78 Discovery Miles 780
My Quest for Health Equity - Notes on…
David Satcher Paperback R568 Discovery Miles 5 680
Raw Feeling - A Philosophical Account of…
Robert Kirk Hardcover R3,822 Discovery Miles 38 220
UNITEK Y-UE01001 networking cable Black…
R517 Discovery Miles 5 170
Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
Pat Beckley, Ashley Compton, … Hardcover R3,887 Discovery Miles 38 870
New Geometric Data Structures for…
Rene Weller Hardcover R2,024 Discovery Miles 20 240
The Limits of the Law of Obligations
Daniel Visser Paperback R374 Discovery Miles 3 740
Agent-Based Simulation: From Modeling…
Takao Terano, Hajime Kita, … Hardcover R4,497 Discovery Miles 44 970
Law Express Question and Answer: Tort…
Rebecca Gladwin-Geoghegan Paperback R548 Discovery Miles 5 480

 

Partners