Some Reflections on Making Popular Culture in Urban Africa
- 1 December 2008
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in African Studies Review
- Vol. 51 (3), 75-89
- https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0085
Abstract
In contemporary urban Africa, the turbulence of the city requires incessant innovation that is capable of generating new ways of being. Rather than treating popular culture as some distinctive sector, this article attempts to investigate the popular as methods of bringing together activities and actors that on the surface would not seem compatible, and as experimental forms of generating value in the everyday life of urban residents. This investigation, sited largely in Douala, Cameroon, looks at how youth from varying neighborhoods attempt to get by, and at the unexpected forms of contestation that can ensue.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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