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African Performances: On Stage and Screen

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2022

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African Studies Review , Volume 65 , Issue 4 , December 2022 , pp. 1030 - 1038
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the African Studies Association

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References

1 Barber, Karin, A History of African Popular Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Also see my own overview essay, “African Historians and Popular Culture,” in A Companion to African History, ed. by William Worger, Charles Ambler, and Nwando Achebe (Wiley Blackwell, 2019), 483–99.

2 Shain, Richard, Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism (Wesleyan University Press, 2018)Google Scholar.

3 Fair, Laura, Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth-Century Urban Tanzania (Ohio University Press, 2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 Notably, Karin Barber’s outstanding study, The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater (Indiana University Press, 2003).

5 See Odile Goerg’s important new study of cinema in West Africa, Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema in Colonial West Africa (Oxford University Press, 2020).

6 Diawara, Manthia, African Cinema, Politics and Culture (Indiana University Press, 1992)Google Scholar and African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics (Prestel, 2010); Harrow, Kenneth, Trash: African Cinema from Below (Indiana University Press, 2013)Google Scholar.

7 Manthia Diawara, African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics; Harrow, Kenneth, Trash: African Cinema from Below (Indiana University Press, 2013)Google Scholar.