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Much scholarly effort over the last two to three decades has been spent debating cosmopolitanism and attacking or refurbishing its older understanding as something owned by the West and a marker of civilization that others should strive for. The criticisms, however, have tended to emphasize the Eurocentric origins and constitutive cultural exclusionism of cosmopolitanism more than anything else. A second and newer origin of cosmopolitanism that is more commonly referenced today as cosmopolitanism's modern foundation is one in which we find an inextricable imbrication of three Cs: conquest, commerce, and cosmopolitanism. Global commerce was the condition of possibility of cosmopolitanism, but what had long structured global commerce was a composite of rapacity, enslavement, violence, domination, and some good. The author proposes that the contemporary study of cosmopolitanism reacquaint itself with what continues to make it possible as aspiration, if not reality for all: global commerce and its conditions. To make commerce legible in cosmopolitanism, he asserts, is to accommodate the talk of profit, loss, assets, accumulation, interests, interest rates, and the likes in our theorizations. Using this analogy, the author speculates on what sort of "cosmopolitan interest rates" might be assigned to the social and economic debts owed to the descendants of slaves who suffered great loss at the hands of cosmopolitan global commerce. He concludes that it is a rate of interest that says to live as a social being is to be obligated in any number of ways to one another and the overall optimal health of that sociality.

One of the most common obsessions – perhaps the defining one – of scholarly discourse on the African family is how it has been affected by change. Very often, serious research, theoretical and methodological challenges are side-tracked in the pursuit of showing how the African family had been in an ambiguously specified 'past', and how it is in an equally vaguely defined 'present'. It is as if the African family is worth studying only because it can be shown to be a receptacle for historical changes of all kinds. As a result, the rush is often to an analytical framework which privileges the so-called 'tradition / modernity' divide, in which whatever feature of the African family that is perceived as indigenous is labeled 'traditional', while everything else with an uncertain indigenous provenance is 'modern' or 'Western', a result of the colonial encounter. I have labelled this the anthropological approach to the African family. To be sure, this approach has its own uses, but its insights have been very limited. What distinguishes Femi Osofisan's dramatic intervention is a firm denial that the productive way to read the African family is necessarily to privilege its trajectory of change. Change, after all, is the fate of all social institutions. His plays propose social ethics as a more illuminating conceptual direction to follow.

Decolonizing the ear : the transcolonial reverberations of vernacular phonograph music / Michael Denning -- Smoking hot : cigarettes, jazz, and the production of global imaginaries in interwar Shanghai / Nan Enstad -- Circuit listening : Grace Chang and the dawn of the Chinese 1960s / Andrew F. Jones -- The Aesthetics of Allá : listening like a sonidero / Josh Kun -- Sound legacy : Elsie Houston / Micol Seigel -- Imperial aurality : jazz, the archive, and U.S. empire / Jairo Moreno -- Where they came from : reracializing music in the empire of silence / Philip V. Bohlman -- Di eagle and di bear : who gets to tell the story of the Cold War? / Penny Von Eschen -- Currents of revolutionary confluence : a view from Cuba's hip hop festival / Marc Perry -- Tango as intangible cultural heritage : development, diversity, and the values of music in Buenos Aires / Morgan James Luker -- Musical economies of the elusive metropolis / Gavin Steingo -- The sound of anticolonialism / Brent Hayes Edwards -- Rap, race, revolution : post-9/11 Brown and a hip hop critique of empire / Nitasha Sharma -- Echo and anthem : representing sound, music, and difference in two colonial modern novels / Amanda Weidman -- Tonality as a colonizing force in Africa / Kofi Agawu

Focusing on the problems and conflicts of doing African diaspora research from various disciplinary perspectives, these essays situate, describe, and reflect on the current practice of diaspora scholarship. Tejumola Olaniyan, James H. Sweet, and the international group of contributors assembled here seek to enlarge understanding of how the diaspora is conceived and explore possibilities for the future of its study. With the aim of initiating interdisciplinary dialogue on the practice of African diaspora s

Introduction / Peter Limb -- Nigeria -- The art of Bisi Ogunbadejo / Tejumola Olaniyan -- Wetin you carry? The Nigeria police force in cartoonists' space / Ganiyu A. Jimoh -- South Africa -- South African cartooning in the post-apartheid era / Andy Mason and Su Opperman -- Kenya -- The rise of Kenyan political animation : tactics of subversion / Paula Callus -- Kenyan cartoons and censorship / Patrick Gathara -- Ghana -- Ideology and intention in Ghanaian political cartoons, 1961-1966 / Baba G. Jallow -- "This cartoon is a satire" : cartoons as "critical entertainment" and "resistance" in contemporary Ghanaian democratic politics / Joseph Oduro-Frimpong -- Interviews with African cartoonists -- Zapiro (South Africa) -- Gado (Kenya) -- Mike Asukwo (Nigeria) -- Mabijo (Botswana) -- Dudley (Namibia)