Oluwakemi M. Balogun studies gender, nation, and beauty in Nigeria. She teaches in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Sociology at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation.Lisa Gilman is a folklorist who studies gender, performance, heritage, and politics in Malawi and Zambia. She teaches at George Mason University. She is the author (with John Fenn) of Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork; My Music, My War: The Listening Habits of U.S. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan; and The Dance of Politics: Performance, Gender, and Democratization in Malawi.Melissa Graboyes, a historian, examines topics related to global health, ethics, and biomedicine in East Africa. She is the author of The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940–2014. She teaches in the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon.Habib Iddrisu is a music and dance scholar and practitioner who writes about dance and cultural change in Ghana and its global context. He teaches at the University of Oregon.

"With its snapshots of a dazzling variety of everyday activities—sports, social media, music, moviegoing, sex and romance, and the use of public spaces are just a few—this bright and readable collection sets out to provide an antidote to the prevailing depiction of Africa as a scene of unmitigated deprivation, disorder, and despair. It will easily intrigue readers who are not African studies specialists, as well as Africanists in a wide range of disciplines (anthropology, politics, cultural studies, history, literature, development studies)." "Written clearly with a refreshing lack of academic rhetoric, these vignettes outline experiences of daily life relating to sports, media, friendship, love, and labor. A welcome contribution. Recommended." (Choice)

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Everyday Life in Africa: The Importance of Leisure and Fun.Oluwakemi M. Balogun and Melissa Graboyes 1Part 1: Celebrations and Rites of Passage1. Hosting a First Haircutting in Diégo Suarez, Madagascar.Erin Nourse 212. Ekún-Ìyàwó: An African Bridal Shower in Yorubaland.Abiola Victoria Ayodokun and Osuolale Joseph Ayodokun 313. Funeral Swag: A Celebration of Death in Urban Zambia.Prince F. M. Lamba 394. Beyond Religion: Food, Decoration, and Songs of Egyptian Feasts.Hadeer Aboelnagah 495. New Year’s Eve in Niamey, Niger.Scott M. Youngstedt 61Part 2: Socializing and Friendship6. Tank Park’s Children: Recreational Activities of Namibian Children in Oranjemund during the 1980s.Martha Ndakalako-Bannikov 737. “Have You Been to All the Malls?” The New Mall Scene in Botswana.Deborah Durham 838. Sociality, Money, and the Making of Masculine Privilege in Nigerian Sports Clubs.Daniel Jordan Smith 93vi / Contents9. “Let’s Turn it Up”: Effervescent Night Life in Nigeria.Omotoyosi Babalola 103Part 3: Love, Sex, and Marriage10. Young Love: Dancing by the Light of the Moon in Tanzania.Dorothy L. Hodgson 11311. Love, Play, and Sex: Polyamory and the Hidden Pleasures of Everyday Life in Kaoko, Northwest Namibia.Steven Van Wolputte 12312. Love in and after War: Courtship (Cuna) in Rural Acoliland, Northern Uganda.Lara Rosenoff Gauvin 133Part 4: Sports and Leisure13. “Where Are All the Women Who Used to Be Good Athletes in Their School Days?”: Sports, Gender, and Leisure in English-Speaking Cameroon, 1960s–1970s.Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué 14514. “We Are Building the New Nigeria”: Lagos, Boys’ Clubs, and Leisure, 1945–60.Michael Gennaro 15515. Leisure, Resistance, and Identity Formation among People with Disabilities in Ghana.Issahaku Adam and Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme 16516. Bits and Beats from Senegalese Wrestling.Cheikh Tidiane Lo 175Part 5: Performance, Language, and Creativity17. Sheng: Expressivity, Creativity, and Rebellion in Nairobi.Mokaya Bosire 18918. The Journal Rappé: “Edutaining” the Youth through Senegalese Hip-Hop.Maya Angela Smith 20119. Teeth Appear Themselves: Laughter and Humor in East Africa.Alex Perullo and James Nindi 21120. Chilimika: Dancing In the New Year in the Nkhata Bay District of Malawi.Lisa Gilman 219Contents / vii21. Portrait of a Playful Man: Mustafa, Master of Mapiko.Paolo Israel 229Part 6: Technology and Media22. Mobile Malawi and Everyday Handsets.John Fenn 24323. Meeting Up at the Movies in Tanzania.Laura Fair 25324. Retelling the World in Swahili: Revisiting the Practice of Film Translation in Tanzania.Birgit Englert with Nginjai Paul Moreto 26525. The Listeners’ City: Radio, Congolese Rumba, and the Appropriation of Urban Space in the Belgian Congo in the 1950s.Charlotte Grabli 275Part 7: Labor and Livelihoods26. Mechanical Expression in a Broken World: Repair, Fun, and Everyday Life in Tanzanian Garages Joshua Grace27. Male Friendship and the Writing Life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Emily Callaci28. Work and Happiness: Songs of Indigenous Ghanaian Fishermen Eric Debrah Otchere29. Leisure at the Edge of Legality: Cannabis in Twentieth-Century Swaziland and South Africa Bill McCoyBibliographyContributorsIndex

Oluwakemi M. Balogun studies gender, nation, and beauty in Nigeria. She teaches in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Sociology at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation.Lisa Gilman is a folklorist who studies gender, performance, heritage, and politics in Malawi and Zambia. She teaches at George Mason University. She is the author (with John Fenn) of Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork; My Music, My War: The Listening Habits of U.S. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan; and The Dance of Politics: Performance, Gender, and Democratization in Malawi.Melissa Graboyes, a historian, examines topics related to global health, ethics, and biomedicine in East Africa. She is the author of The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940–2014. She teaches in the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon.Habib Iddrisu is a music and dance scholar and practitioner who writes about dance and cultural change in Ghana and its global context. He teaches at the University of Oregon.

"With its snapshots of a dazzling variety of everyday activities—sports, social media, music, moviegoing, sex and romance, and the use of public spaces are just a few—this bright and readable collection sets out to provide an antidote to the prevailing depiction of Africa as a scene of unmitigated deprivation, disorder, and despair. It will easily intrigue readers who are not African studies specialists, as well as Africanists in a wide range of disciplines (anthropology, politics, cultural studies, history, literature, development studies)." "Written clearly with a refreshing lack of academic rhetoric, these vignettes outline experiences of daily life relating to sports, media, friendship, love, and labor. A welcome contribution. Recommended." (Choice)

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Everyday Life in Africa: The Importance of Leisure and Fun.Oluwakemi M. Balogun and Melissa Graboyes 1Part 1: Celebrations and Rites of Passage1. Hosting a First Haircutting in Diégo Suarez, Madagascar.Erin Nourse 212. Ekún-Ìyàwó: An African Bridal Shower in Yorubaland.Abiola Victoria Ayodokun and Osuolale Joseph Ayodokun 313. Funeral Swag: A Celebration of Death in Urban Zambia.Prince F. M. Lamba 394. Beyond Religion: Food, Decoration, and Songs of Egyptian Feasts.Hadeer Aboelnagah 495. New Year’s Eve in Niamey, Niger.Scott M. Youngstedt 61Part 2: Socializing and Friendship6. Tank Park’s Children: Recreational Activities of Namibian Children in Oranjemund during the 1980s.Martha Ndakalako-Bannikov 737. “Have You Been to All the Malls?” The New Mall Scene in Botswana.Deborah Durham 838. Sociality, Money, and the Making of Masculine Privilege in Nigerian Sports Clubs.Daniel Jordan Smith 93vi / Contents9. “Let’s Turn it Up”: Effervescent Night Life in Nigeria.Omotoyosi Babalola 103Part 3: Love, Sex, and Marriage10. Young Love: Dancing by the Light of the Moon in Tanzania.Dorothy L. Hodgson 11311. Love, Play, and Sex: Polyamory and the Hidden Pleasures of Everyday Life in Kaoko, Northwest Namibia.Steven Van Wolputte 12312. Love in and after War: Courtship (Cuna) in Rural Acoliland, Northern Uganda.Lara Rosenoff Gauvin 133Part 4: Sports and Leisure13. “Where Are All the Women Who Used to Be Good Athletes in Their School Days?”: Sports, Gender, and Leisure in English-Speaking Cameroon, 1960s–1970s.Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué 14514. “We Are Building the New Nigeria”: Lagos, Boys’ Clubs, and Leisure, 1945–60.Michael Gennaro 15515. Leisure, Resistance, and Identity Formation among People with Disabilities in Ghana.Issahaku Adam and Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme 16516. Bits and Beats from Senegalese Wrestling.Cheikh Tidiane Lo 175Part 5: Performance, Language, and Creativity17. Sheng: Expressivity, Creativity, and Rebellion in Nairobi.Mokaya Bosire 18918. The Journal Rappé: “Edutaining” the Youth through Senegalese Hip-Hop.Maya Angela Smith 20119. Teeth Appear Themselves: Laughter and Humor in East Africa.Alex Perullo and James Nindi 21120. Chilimika: Dancing In the New Year in the Nkhata Bay District of Malawi.Lisa Gilman 219Contents / vii21. Portrait of a Playful Man: Mustafa, Master of Mapiko.Paolo Israel 229Part 6: Technology and Media22. Mobile Malawi and Everyday Handsets.John Fenn 24323. Meeting Up at the Movies in Tanzania.Laura Fair 25324. Retelling the World in Swahili: Revisiting the Practice of Film Translation in Tanzania.Birgit Englert with Nginjai Paul Moreto 26525. The Listeners’ City: Radio, Congolese Rumba, and the Appropriation of Urban Space in the Belgian Congo in the 1950s.Charlotte Grabli 275Part 7: Labor and Livelihoods26. Mechanical Expression in a Broken World: Repair, Fun, and Everyday Life in Tanzanian Garages Joshua Grace27. Male Friendship and the Writing Life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Emily Callaci28. Work and Happiness: Songs of Indigenous Ghanaian Fishermen Eric Debrah Otchere29. Leisure at the Edge of Legality: Cannabis in Twentieth-Century Swaziland and South Africa Bill McCoyBibliographyContributorsIndex

Oluwakemi M. Balogun studies gender, nation, and beauty in Nigeria. She teaches in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Sociology at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation.Lisa Gilman is a folklorist who studies gender, performance, heritage, and politics in Malawi and Zambia. She teaches at George Mason University. She is the author (with John Fenn) of Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork; My Music, My War: The Listening Habits of U.S. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan; and The Dance of Politics: Performance, Gender, and Democratization in Malawi.Melissa Graboyes, a historian, examines topics related to global health, ethics, and biomedicine in East Africa. She is the author of The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940–2014. She teaches in the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon.Habib Iddrisu is a music and dance scholar and practitioner who writes about dance and cultural change in Ghana and its global context. He teaches at the University of Oregon.

"With its snapshots of a dazzling variety of everyday activities—sports, social media, music, moviegoing, sex and romance, and the use of public spaces are just a few—this bright and readable collection sets out to provide an antidote to the prevailing depiction of Africa as a scene of unmitigated deprivation, disorder, and despair. It will easily intrigue readers who are not African studies specialists, as well as Africanists in a wide range of disciplines (anthropology, politics, cultural studies, history, literature, development studies)." "Written clearly with a refreshing lack of academic rhetoric, these vignettes outline experiences of daily life relating to sports, media, friendship, love, and labor. A welcome contribution. Recommended." (Choice)

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Everyday Life in Africa: The Importance of Leisure and Fun.Oluwakemi M. Balogun and Melissa Graboyes 1Part 1: Celebrations and Rites of Passage1. Hosting a First Haircutting in Diégo Suarez, Madagascar.Erin Nourse 212. Ekún-Ìyàwó: An African Bridal Shower in Yorubaland.Abiola Victoria Ayodokun and Osuolale Joseph Ayodokun 313. Funeral Swag: A Celebration of Death in Urban Zambia.Prince F. M. Lamba 394. Beyond Religion: Food, Decoration, and Songs of Egyptian Feasts.Hadeer Aboelnagah 495. New Year’s Eve in Niamey, Niger.Scott M. Youngstedt 61Part 2: Socializing and Friendship6. Tank Park’s Children: Recreational Activities of Namibian Children in Oranjemund during the 1980s.Martha Ndakalako-Bannikov 737. “Have You Been to All the Malls?” The New Mall Scene in Botswana.Deborah Durham 838. Sociality, Money, and the Making of Masculine Privilege in Nigerian Sports Clubs.Daniel Jordan Smith 93vi / Contents9. “Let’s Turn it Up”: Effervescent Night Life in Nigeria.Omotoyosi Babalola 103Part 3: Love, Sex, and Marriage10. Young Love: Dancing by the Light of the Moon in Tanzania.Dorothy L. Hodgson 11311. Love, Play, and Sex: Polyamory and the Hidden Pleasures of Everyday Life in Kaoko, Northwest Namibia.Steven Van Wolputte 12312. Love in and after War: Courtship (Cuna) in Rural Acoliland, Northern Uganda.Lara Rosenoff Gauvin 133Part 4: Sports and Leisure13. “Where Are All the Women Who Used to Be Good Athletes in Their School Days?”: Sports, Gender, and Leisure in English-Speaking Cameroon, 1960s–1970s.Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué 14514. “We Are Building the New Nigeria”: Lagos, Boys’ Clubs, and Leisure, 1945–60.Michael Gennaro 15515. Leisure, Resistance, and Identity Formation among People with Disabilities in Ghana.Issahaku Adam and Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme 16516. Bits and Beats from Senegalese Wrestling.Cheikh Tidiane Lo 175Part 5: Performance, Language, and Creativity17. Sheng: Expressivity, Creativity, and Rebellion in Nairobi.Mokaya Bosire 18918. The Journal Rappé: “Edutaining” the Youth through Senegalese Hip-Hop.Maya Angela Smith 20119. Teeth Appear Themselves: Laughter and Humor in East Africa.Alex Perullo and James Nindi 21120. Chilimika: Dancing In the New Year in the Nkhata Bay District of Malawi.Lisa Gilman 219Contents / vii21. Portrait of a Playful Man: Mustafa, Master of Mapiko.Paolo Israel 229Part 6: Technology and Media22. Mobile Malawi and Everyday Handsets.John Fenn 24323. Meeting Up at the Movies in Tanzania.Laura Fair 25324. Retelling the World in Swahili: Revisiting the Practice of Film Translation in Tanzania.Birgit Englert with Nginjai Paul Moreto 26525. The Listeners’ City: Radio, Congolese Rumba, and the Appropriation of Urban Space in the Belgian Congo in the 1950s.Charlotte Grabli 275Part 7: Labor and Livelihoods26. Mechanical Expression in a Broken World: Repair, Fun, and Everyday Life in Tanzanian Garages Joshua Grace27. Male Friendship and the Writing Life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Emily Callaci28. Work and Happiness: Songs of Indigenous Ghanaian Fishermen Eric Debrah Otchere29. Leisure at the Edge of Legality: Cannabis in Twentieth-Century Swaziland and South Africa Bill McCoyBibliographyContributorsIndex