A history of African popular culture /
Karin Barber.
- United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2018
- 201 pages
- New approaches to African history .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Popular culture before 1900 -- Mines, migrant labour and township culture -- The city and the road -- The crowd, the state - and songs -- The media - globalisation and deregulation from the 1990s till today -- Conceptualising change in African popular culture.