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Introduction : Thirteen Ways of Reading African Popular Culture / Grace A Musila -- Ethiopian Imprints : Reading and Writing Ethiopia in 1930s South Africa / Corinne Sandwith -- Local Authors, Ephemeral Texts: Anglo-Scribes and Anglo-Literates in Early West African Newspapers / Stephanie Newell -- Varieties of Romance in Contemporary Popular Togolese Literature / Susanne Gerhman -- Against 'African Popular Literature' / Ranka Primorac -- Gendering the Popular : FEMRITE and African Popular Culture / Lynda Gichanda Spencer and Erik Falk / Scandals, Controversies and African Literary Prizes : Between Intertextuality and Plagiarism / Doseline Kiguru -- Talkin' TED, Blogging and Celebrity : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Popular Imagination / Steve Almquist -- Flash Fiction Ghana and Popular Culture : An Overview / Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang and Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang -- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle : Methods of Speculation in African Popular Culture / Nedine Moonsamy -- Literature in Africa's Great Lakes region : Between Resistance and Resilience / Maeline le Lay -- Funding Popular Culture in Tanzania : Crowdfunding, Self-Funding and the Live Performance as Fundraiser / Nikitta Dede Adjirakor -- Nigerian film audiences on the Internet : Influences, Preferences and Contentions / Añulika Agina -- 'Don't tell me you want to marry a white man!' : The Encounter with Euro-American Characters and Settings in African Commercial Cinema / Alessandro Jedlowski -- Popular Culture and the Women Fandom of English Premier League Football in Eldoret, Kenya / Solomon Waliaula -- Modelling Success : Women and Self-Making in Kenyan Digital Spaces / Dina Ligaga -- Recognising LGBTQ Faces beyond the Mauritian Nation-State / Ryan Poinsamy -- Coding the City : Mapping Eco-Systems and Zones of Opportunity in Kinshasa's Emerging Tech Scene / Katrien Pype -- Matters of Kwaito and why Kwaito Matters / Rangoato Hlasane and Bhekizizwe Peterson -- Meaning and Multiplicity : Complexity and Play in Tanzanian Hip-Hop / David Kerr -- Music Video, Popular Culture and the Question of the Political / Femi Eromosele -- The Police is Your Friend : Instagram Comedy and the Defamiliarization of the Postcolonial State / James Yeku -- "Di wone wey dey pain me pass...!" : Social Satire, Caricature and Mimicry in the Comic Act of AY / Rotimi Fasan -- #ObinimStickerChallenge : Visual Mediations of Suspicion in Religious Prosumer Parody Media in Contemporary Ghana / Joseph Oduro-Frimpong.

Introduction : Thirteen Ways of Reading African Popular Culture / Grace A Musila -- Ethiopian Imprints : Reading and Writing Ethiopia in 1930s South Africa / Corinne Sandwith -- Local Authors, Ephemeral Texts: Anglo-Scribes and Anglo-Literates in Early West African Newspapers / Stephanie Newell -- Varieties of Romance in Contemporary Popular Togolese Literature / Susanne Gerhman -- Against 'African Popular Literature' / Ranka Primorac -- Gendering the Popular : FEMRITE and African Popular Culture / Lynda Gichanda Spencer and Erik Falk / Scandals, Controversies and African Literary Prizes : Between Intertextuality and Plagiarism / Doseline Kiguru -- Talkin' TED, Blogging and Celebrity : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Popular Imagination / Steve Almquist -- Flash Fiction Ghana and Popular Culture : An Overview / Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang and Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang -- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle : Methods of Speculation in African Popular Culture / Nedine Moonsamy -- Literature in Africa's Great Lakes region : Between Resistance and Resilience / Maeline le Lay -- Funding Popular Culture in Tanzania : Crowdfunding, Self-Funding and the Live Performance as Fundraiser / Nikitta Dede Adjirakor -- Nigerian film audiences on the Internet : Influences, Preferences and Contentions / Añulika Agina -- 'Don't tell me you want to marry a white man!' : The Encounter with Euro-American Characters and Settings in African Commercial Cinema / Alessandro Jedlowski -- Popular Culture and the Women Fandom of English Premier League Football in Eldoret, Kenya / Solomon Waliaula -- Modelling Success : Women and Self-Making in Kenyan Digital Spaces / Dina Ligaga -- Recognising LGBTQ Faces beyond the Mauritian Nation-State / Ryan Poinsamy -- Coding the City : Mapping Eco-Systems and Zones of Opportunity in Kinshasa's Emerging Tech Scene / Katrien Pype -- Matters of Kwaito and why Kwaito Matters / Rangoato Hlasane and Bhekizizwe Peterson -- Meaning and Multiplicity : Complexity and Play in Tanzanian Hip-Hop / David Kerr -- Music Video, Popular Culture and the Question of the Political / Femi Eromosele -- The Police is Your Friend : Instagram Comedy and the Defamiliarization of the Postcolonial State / James Yeku -- "Di wone wey dey pain me pass...!" : Social Satire, Caricature and Mimicry in the Comic Act of AY / Rotimi Fasan -- #ObinimStickerChallenge : Visual Mediations of Suspicion in Religious Prosumer Parody Media in Contemporary Ghana / Joseph Oduro-Frimpong.

Julie Ann Ward was a British tourist and wildlife photographer who went missing in Kenya's Maasai Mara Game Reserve in 1988 and was eventually found to have been murdered. Her death and the protracted search for her killers, still at large, were hotly contested in the media. Many theories emerged as to how and why she died, generating three trials, several 'true crime' books, and much speculation and rumour. At the core of Grace Musila's study are the following questions: why would this young woman's death be the subject of such strong contestations of ideas and multiple truths? And what does this reveal about cultural productions of truth and knowledge in Kenya and Britain, particularly in the light of the responses to her disappearance of the Kenyan police, the British Foreign Office, and the British High Commission in Nairobi. Building on existing scholarship on African history, narrative, gender and postcolonial studies, the author reveals how the Julie Ward murder and its attendant discourses offer insights into the journeys of ideas, and how these traverse the porous boundaries of the relationship between Kenya and Britain, and, by extension, Africa and the Global North. Grace Musila is a lecturer in the English Department of Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

This article is interested in the intellectual contributions of the youth to Kenyan public life. It focuses on what has been called the 'Redykyulass Generation' as a contemporary generation of politically engaged youths who have successfully used various genres of popular cultural productions and media platforms to engage with Kenyan social imaginaries. Using three case studies — the Redykyulass group and the writings of Binyavanga Wainaina and Parselelo Kantai — the article examines this generation's ongoing reconstruction of what constitutes knowledge and its contributions in shaping Kenyan public life, while critically engaging with what can be termed the 'geronto-masculine' texture of Kenyan political and intellectual public life. The study suggests that the Redykyulass Generation has variously fractured certain conventions embedded in the socio-political terrains of Kenyan public life, while attaining both social relevance and popularity in Kenyan social imaginaries.

This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. An authoritative scholarly resource on popular culture in Africa, this handbook is an essential read for students and scholars of African culture, society and media.