TOYIN FALOLA is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, TX. He is the series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Falola is a recipient of many distinguished lifetime awards, including 28 honorary doctorates. TOYIN FALOLA is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, TX. He is the series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Falola is a recipient of many distinguished lifetime awards, including 28 honorary doctorates.

A welcome addition to the much-needed study of African popular culture.

• Introduction - Toyin Falola and Augustine AgwueleFrom Primitive to Popular Culture: Why Kant Never Made It to Africa - Hetty ter HaarPopular Culture of Yoruba Kinship Practices - Augustine AgwueleJustice from Below: Cultural Capital, Local/Global Identity Processes, and Social Change in Eastern Niger - Antoinette Tidjani AlouPopular Culture and the Resolution of Boundary Disputes in the Bamenda Grasslands of Cameroon - Emmanuel M. MbahReverse Mission or Asylum Christianity? A Nigerian Church in Europe - Asonzeh UkahPerforming Pop Tradition in Nigeria: From Yorùbá Bàtá to Bàtá Fújì - Debra L. KleinReclaiming the Past or Assimilationist Rebellion? Transforming the Self in Contemporary American Cinema - Celeste A. FisherNeither Bold nor Beautiful: Investigating the Impact of Western Soap Operas on Kenya - Maurice Nyamanga AmutabiThe Lions in the Jungle: Representations of Africa and Africans in American Cinema - Sarah Steinbock-PrattSexuality in Caribbean Performance: Homoeroticism and the African Body in Trinidad - Denise A. Forbes-EricksonFamily Health Awareness in Popular Yorùbá Arts - Arinpe Gbekelolu AdejumoLiterary Cultural Nationalists as Ambassadors across the Diaspora - Nicholas M. CrearyPopular Resistance Literature and the Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1955-60 - Tokunbo A. AyoolaList of ContributorsIndex

TOYIN FALOLA is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, TX. He is the series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Falola is a recipient of many distinguished lifetime awards, including 28 honorary doctorates. TOYIN FALOLA is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, TX. He is the series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Falola is a recipient of many distinguished lifetime awards, including 28 honorary doctorates.

A welcome addition to the much-needed study of African popular culture.

• Introduction - Toyin Falola and Augustine AgwueleFrom Primitive to Popular Culture: Why Kant Never Made It to Africa - Hetty ter HaarPopular Culture of Yoruba Kinship Practices - Augustine AgwueleJustice from Below: Cultural Capital, Local/Global Identity Processes, and Social Change in Eastern Niger - Antoinette Tidjani AlouPopular Culture and the Resolution of Boundary Disputes in the Bamenda Grasslands of Cameroon - Emmanuel M. MbahReverse Mission or Asylum Christianity? A Nigerian Church in Europe - Asonzeh UkahPerforming Pop Tradition in Nigeria: From Yorùbá Bàtá to Bàtá Fújì - Debra L. KleinReclaiming the Past or Assimilationist Rebellion? Transforming the Self in Contemporary American Cinema - Celeste A. FisherNeither Bold nor Beautiful: Investigating the Impact of Western Soap Operas on Kenya - Maurice Nyamanga AmutabiThe Lions in the Jungle: Representations of Africa and Africans in American Cinema - Sarah Steinbock-PrattSexuality in Caribbean Performance: Homoeroticism and the African Body in Trinidad - Denise A. Forbes-EricksonFamily Health Awareness in Popular Yorùbá Arts - Arinpe Gbekelolu AdejumoLiterary Cultural Nationalists as Ambassadors across the Diaspora - Nicholas M. CrearyPopular Resistance Literature and the Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1955-60 - Tokunbo A. AyoolaList of ContributorsIndex

TOYIN FALOLA is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, TX. He is the series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Falola is a recipient of many distinguished lifetime awards, including 28 honorary doctorates. TOYIN FALOLA is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, TX. He is the series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Falola is a recipient of many distinguished lifetime awards, including 28 honorary doctorates.

A welcome addition to the much-needed study of African popular culture.

• Introduction - Toyin Falola and Augustine AgwueleFrom Primitive to Popular Culture: Why Kant Never Made It to Africa - Hetty ter HaarPopular Culture of Yoruba Kinship Practices - Augustine AgwueleJustice from Below: Cultural Capital, Local/Global Identity Processes, and Social Change in Eastern Niger - Antoinette Tidjani AlouPopular Culture and the Resolution of Boundary Disputes in the Bamenda Grasslands of Cameroon - Emmanuel M. MbahReverse Mission or Asylum Christianity? A Nigerian Church in Europe - Asonzeh UkahPerforming Pop Tradition in Nigeria: From Yorùbá Bàtá to Bàtá Fújì - Debra L. KleinReclaiming the Past or Assimilationist Rebellion? Transforming the Self in Contemporary American Cinema - Celeste A. FisherNeither Bold nor Beautiful: Investigating the Impact of Western Soap Operas on Kenya - Maurice Nyamanga AmutabiThe Lions in the Jungle: Representations of Africa and Africans in American Cinema - Sarah Steinbock-PrattSexuality in Caribbean Performance: Homoeroticism and the African Body in Trinidad - Denise A. Forbes-EricksonFamily Health Awareness in Popular Yorùbá Arts - Arinpe Gbekelolu AdejumoLiterary Cultural Nationalists as Ambassadors across the Diaspora - Nicholas M. CrearyPopular Resistance Literature and the Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1955-60 - Tokunbo A. AyoolaList of ContributorsIndex