Ebook: A history of African popular culture
Author: Barber Karin
- Tags: Popular culture -- Africa Sub-Saharan -- History, Africa Sub-Saharan -- Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Popular culture, Africa Sub-Saharan
- Series: New approaches to African history 11.
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- City: Array
- Language: English
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Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns in the era of the Read more...