List of Figures . - Foreword . - KARIN BARBER . - 1 Introduction: Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme . - of the Everyday . - STEPHANIE NEWELL AND ONOOKOME OKOME . - PARTI . - Theoretical Overviews . - 2 On Creativity in African Urban Life: African Cities as Sites . - of Creativity and Emancipation . - TILL EORSTER . - 3 "Our Tradition Is a Very Modern Tradition": From Cultural . - Tradition to Popular Culture in Southwestern Nigeria . - WILL REA . - PART II . - Gender and Sexuality in African Popular Cultures . - 4 Sex and Relationship Education of the Streets: Advice . - on Love, Sex, and Relationships in Popular . - Swahili Newspaper Columns and Pamphlets . - in Tanzania . - UTA REUSTER-JAHN . - 5 The Other Woman's Man Is so Delicious: Performing Sudanese . - "Girls' Songs" . - EIMAN ABBAS H. EL-NOUR x Contents . - 6 Bingo: Francophone African Women and the Rise . - of the Glossy Magazine 1 11 . - TSITSI JAJI . - 7 "Better Ghana [Agenda]"?: Akosua's Political Cartoons . - and Critical Public