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Popular Culture in Africa Keeping Manufacturing in the US melomania--the passion forThis volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barbers ground breaking article, "Popular Arts in Africa", which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories. Focusing on performances, audiences, social contexts and texts, contributors ask how African popular cultures contribute to the formation of an episteme. With chapters on theater, Nollywood films, blogging, and music and sports discourses, as well as on