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Urban legends, colonial myths : popular culture and literature in East Africa / edited by James Ogude & Joyce Nyairo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 2006.Description: p. cmISBN:
  • 1592214983 (hardcover)
  • 1592214991 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR9340.5 .U73 2006
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Contents:
East African popular culture : an introduction / James Ogude & Joyce Nyairo -- "Kaa masaa, grapple with spiders" : the myriad threads of Nairobi matatu discourse / Mbugua Wa Mungai -- "We seek it here, we seek it there - that damn'd elusive nandi bear" / Elsie Cloete -- "Christening fiction" : sermonising "the popular" in Whispers / George Ogola -- Democrazy : laughter in Gado's editorial cartoons (1992-1999) / Grace A. Musila -- "Modify" : Jua Kali as a metaphor for Africa's urban ethnicities and cultures / Joyce Nyairo -- From the "English country garden" to "Makambo mibale" : popular culture in Kenya in the mid nineteen sixties / E.S. Atieno Odhiambo -- "The cat that ended up eating the homestead chicken" : murder, memory and fabulization in D.O. Misiani's Dissident music / James Ogude -- Popular culture in East African literature / Chris Wanjala -- Alternative moral economies, crime and violence in Kenyan popular fiction / Tom Odhiambo -- Romance, (in)visibility and agency in Grace Ogot's The strange bride and "The white veil" / Sophie Macharia -- "Chira" and HIV/AIDS : the (re)construction of sexual moralities in Kenyan popular fiction / Agnes Muriungi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

East African popular culture : an introduction / James Ogude & Joyce Nyairo -- "Kaa masaa, grapple with spiders" : the myriad threads of Nairobi matatu discourse / Mbugua Wa Mungai -- "We seek it here, we seek it there - that damn'd elusive nandi bear" / Elsie Cloete -- "Christening fiction" : sermonising "the popular" in Whispers / George Ogola -- Democrazy : laughter in Gado's editorial cartoons (1992-1999) / Grace A. Musila -- "Modify" : Jua Kali as a metaphor for Africa's urban ethnicities and cultures / Joyce Nyairo -- From the "English country garden" to "Makambo mibale" : popular culture in Kenya in the mid nineteen sixties / E.S. Atieno Odhiambo -- "The cat that ended up eating the homestead chicken" : murder, memory and fabulization in D.O. Misiani's Dissident music / James Ogude -- Popular culture in East African literature / Chris Wanjala -- Alternative moral economies, crime and violence in Kenyan popular fiction / Tom Odhiambo -- Romance, (in)visibility and agency in Grace Ogot's The strange bride and "The white veil" / Sophie Macharia -- "Chira" and HIV/AIDS : the (re)construction of sexual moralities in Kenyan popular fiction / Agnes Muriungi.

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