Spis treści:
  • Part I : Views of the field
  • Introduction / Barber, Karin
  • The world in creolization / Hannerz, Ulf
  • Popular culture in Africa : findings & conjectures / Fabian, Johannes
  • Part II : Oral tradition revisited
  • Eloquent knowledge : Lesotho migrants'songs & the anthropology of experience / Coplan, David
  • Mande oral popular culture revisited by the electronic media / Diawara, Mamadou
  • 'Our tradition is a very modern tradition' : popular music & the construction of pan-Yoruba identity / Waterman, C. A.
  • Part III : Social history, social criticism & interpretation
  • Plantation protest : the history of a Mozambican song / Vail, Leroy ; White, Landeg
  • The Chimurenga songs of the Zimbabwean war of liberation / Pongweni, Alec J. C.
  • South African theatre : ideology & rebellion / Horn, Andrew
  • Popular writing in Ghana : a sociology & rhetoric / Priebe, Richard
  • Popular reactions to the proto-Naira / Barber, Karin
  • Painting in Zaïre : from the invention of the west to the representation of social self / Jewsiewicki, Bogumil
  • Whose music ? The songs of Remmy Ongala & the Orchestra Super Matimila / Graebner, Werner
  • Part IV : Women in popular culture
  • Women & modern African popular fiction / Jane Bryce
  • Either one or the other : images of women in Nigerian television / Adeleye-Fayemi, Bisi
  • Women in cultural work : The fate of the Kamiriithu people's theatre in Kenya / Nguti Wa Thiong'o
  • Kanga : popular cloths with messages / Linnebuhr, Elisabeth
  • Part V : 'Little genres of everyday life'
  • Politics & urban folklore in Nigeria / Sekoni, Ropo
  • The world of the Yoruba taxi driver : An interpretative approach to vehicle slogans / Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi
  • The 'thing' & its doubles in Cameroonian cartoons / Mbembe, Achille
  • Part VI : The local & the global
  • Sophiatown : The view from Afar / Hannerz, Ulf
  • Africa civilized, Africa uncivilized: local culture, world system & south African music / Erlmann, Veit.