In addition to countries, use the following geographic terms to add to your searches to find popular culture materials on Africa (e.g. Popular culture -- Africa, west).
Readings in African Popular Culture by
This book surveys the popular culture of contemporary Africa, including popular literature, oral narrative and poetry, dance, drama, music, and visual art, with special emphasis on the verbal arts. The essays cover six main areas: views of the field; oral tradition revisited; social history, social criticism and interpretation; women in popular culture; "little genres of everyday life"; the local and the global.
Writing African Women by
Writing African Women brings together a wide variety of African scholars to explore the links between literature, popular culture, and theories of gender. Beginning with a ground-breaking overview of African gender theory, this volume goes on to analyze specific works, uncovering the ways different women writers have approached issues of female creativity and colonial history, as well as the ways in which they have subverted popular stereotypes around African women.
Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture by
Going beyond merely challenging popular stereotypes and representations of Africans and African-related practices in various outlets, the book reveals how popular cultural practices are instruments that have been manipulated for personal and collective survival.
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"First came Hollywood, then Bollywood, and now Nollywood -- Nigeria's booming film industry, which released two thousand features in 2006 alone. Where else can you shoot a full-length dramatic film for $10,000 in 7 days? Until recently, it was rarely known outside its own country. THIS IS NOLLYWOOD explains why Nigerian video production is becoming recognized as a phenomenon with broad implications for the cultural and economic development of Africa. The most intimate and accurate portrait of the technical, economic and social infrastructure of the industry."
Blacks in Film and Television by 
Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals by 
Gaze regimes: film and feminism in Africa by 
Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora by 
Re-Visioning Television by 
Broadcasting the End of Apartheid by While the library's holdings don't currently include very many African comics, you can get started on research and discover African comics online with the resources below.
Comic Art in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Latin America Through 2000 by 
Bitterkomix: A South African Comic as an Indigenous Ethnography by Get started with Fonko, a 6-part documentary series highlighting popular music from across the continent. Check out the preview below, and click an the link to access the DVDs in the library catalog.
Cultural Globalization and Music by 
Hip Hop Africa by 
East African Hip Hop by African athletes may be best known in the U.S. for their dominance soccer and track and field, but a wide variety of sports are popular across the continent, from cricket to motor rallies. Africa.com gives an overview of the 8 most popular sports on the continent.
Gender, Sport and Development in Africa by 
Identity and Nation in African Football by 
Following the Ball by The success of Black Panther in February 2018 had seemingly every media outlet in the U.S. talking about afrofuturism. The term was coined in 1993 by Mark Dery in an interview with Samuel Delaney to describe to literature, film, and other media that merge black cultural lenses with the tropes of science fiction and fantasy. Major authors include Samuel Delaney, Octavia Butler, N.K. Jemisin, and Nnedi Okorafor, as well as musicians like Janelle Monae.
Bay Area hip hop group Clppng.'s concept Splendor and Misery is "an Afrofuturist, dystopian concept album that follows the sole survivor of a slave uprising on an interstellar cargo ship, and the onboard computer that falls in love with him. Thinking he is alone and lost in space, the character discovers music in the ship’s shuddering hull and chirping instrument panels." Listen below for free or purchase on Bandcamp.com
Afrofuturism by
2014 Locus Awards Finalist, Nonfiction Category In this hip, accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism, author Ytasha Womack introduces readers to the burgeoning community of artists creating Afrofuturist works, the innovators from the past, and the wide range of subjects they explore.
Afro-Future Females by
The first combined science fiction critical anthology and short story collection to focus upon black women via written and visual texts. The volume creates a dialogue with existing theories of Afro-Futurism in order to generate fresh ideas about how to apply race to science fiction studies in terms of gender.
Afrofuturism 2. 0 by
The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. Afrofuturism 2.0 expands and broadens the discussion around the concept to include religion, architecture, communications, visual art, philosophy and reflects its current growth as an emerging global Pan African creative phenomenon.
