Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent

Book Overview

Africa Every Day presents an exuberant, thoughtful, and necessary counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis in introductory African studies classes on war, poverty, corruption, disease, and human rights violations on the continent. These challenges are real and deserve sustained attention, but this volume shows that adverse conditions do not prevent people from making music, falling in love, playing sports, participating in festivals, writing blogs,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896803236
• ISBN13: 9780896803237
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"