Africa Every Day
Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent
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Publication
2019 - Ohio University Press
Language
English
Word Count
96,500 words, Guess
Page Count
386 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL29430397M
- ISBN-139780896803237
- OCLC Control Number1107804766
- Library of Congress Control Number2019028624
Classifications
- LCCDT14.A3435 2019
Description
"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"--
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- Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent
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