Introduction / Karin Barber -- The World in Creolization / Ulf Hannerz -- Popular Culture in Africa: Findings & Conjectures / Johannes Fabian -- Eloquent Knowledge: Lesotho Migrants' Songs & the Anthropology of Experience / David Coplan -- Mande Oral Popular Culture Revisited by the Electronic Media / Mamadou Diawara -- 'Our Tradition is a very Modern Tradition': Popular Music & the Construction of Pan-Yoruba Identity / C. A. Waterman -- Plantation Protest: The History of a Mozambican Song / Leroy Vail and Landeg White -- The Chimurenga Songs of the Zimbabwean War of Liberation / Alec J. C. Pongweni -- South African Theatre: Ideology & Rebellion / Andrew Horn -- Popular Writing in Ghana: A Sociology & Rhetoric / Richard Priebe -- Popular Reactions to the Petro-Naira / Karin Barber -- Painting in Zaire: From the Invention of the West to the Representation of Social Self / Bogumil Jewsiewicki.

Whose Music? The Songs of Remmy Ongala & the Orchestra Super Matimila / Werner Graebner -- Women & Modern African Popular Fiction / Jane Bryce -- Either One or the Other: Images of Women in Nigerian Television / Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi -- Women in Cultural Work: The Fate of the Kamiriithu People's Theatre in Kenya / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o -- Kanga: Popular Cloths with Messages / Elisabeth Linnebuhr -- Politics & Urban Folklore in Nigeria / Ropo Sekoni -- The World of the Yoruba Taxi Driver: An Interpretative Approach to Vehicle Slogans / Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi -- The 'Thing' & its Doubles in Cameroonian Cartoons / Achille Mbembe -- Sophiatown: The View from Afar / Ulf Hannerz -- Africa Civilized, Africa Uncivilized: Local Culture, World System & South African Music / Veit Erlmann.