Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.

Introduction - Toyin Falola and Augustine AgwueleFrom Primitive to Popular Culture: Why Kant Never Made It to Africa - Hetty ter HaarPopular Culture of Yoruba Kinship Practices - Augustine AgwueleJustice from Below: Cultural Capital, Local/Global Identity Processes, and Social Change in Eastern Niger - Antoinette Tidjani AlouPopular Culture and the Resolution of Boundary Disputes in the Bamenda Grasslands of Cameroon - Emmanuel M. MbahReverse Mission or Asylum Christianity? A Nigerian Church in Europe - Asonzeh UkahPerforming Pop Tradition in Nigeria: From Yorùbá Bàtá to Bàtá Fújì - Debra L. KleinReclaiming the Past or Assimilationist Rebellion? Transforming the Self in Contemporary American Cinema - Celeste A. FisherNeither Bold nor Beautiful: Investigating the Impact of Western Soap Operas on Kenya - Maurice Nyamanga AmutabiThe Lions in the Jungle: Representations of Africa and Africans in American Cinema - Sarah Steinbock-PrattSexuality in Caribbean Performance: Homoeroticism and the African Body in Trinidad - Denise A. Forbes-EricksonFamily Health Awareness in Popular Yorùbá Arts - Arinpe Gbekelolu AdejumoLiterary Cultural Nationalists as Ambassadors across the Diaspora - Nicholas M. CrearyPopular Resistance Literature and the Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1955-60 - Tokunbo A. AyoolaList of ContributorsIndex