Urban legends, colonial myths :  popular culture and literature in East Africa / 
edited by James Ogude & Joyce Nyairo. 
 - Trenton, NJ :  Africa World Press,  2006. 
 - vi, 337p. :  ill. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>East African popular culture : an introduction / James Ogude & Joyce Nyairo -- "Kaa masaa, grapple with spiders" : the myriad threads of Nairobi matatu discourse / Mbugua Wa Mungai -- "We seek it here, we seek it there - that damn'd elusive nandi bear" / Elsie Cloete -- "Christening fiction" : sermonising "the popular" in Whispers / George Ogola -- Democrazy : laughter in Gado's editorial cartoons (1992-1999) / Grace A. Musila -- "Modify" : Jua Kali as a metaphor for Africa's urban ethnicities and cultures / Joyce Nyairo -- From the "English country garden" to "Makambo mibale" : popular culture in Kenya in the mid nineteen sixties / E.S. Atieno Odhiambo -- "The cat that ended up eating the homestead chicken" : murder, memory and fabulization in D.O. Misiani's Dissident music / James Ogude -- Popular culture in East African literature / Chris Wanjala -- Alternative moral economies, crime and violence in Kenyan popular fiction / Tom Odhiambo -- Romance, (in)visibility and agency in Grace Ogot's The strange bride and "The white veil" / Sophie Macharia -- "Chira" and HIV/AIDS : the (re)construction of sexual moralities in Kenyan popular fiction / Agnes Muriungi. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1592214983 (hardcover) 1592214991 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006028423 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>East African literature (English)--History and criticism.<br/>East African literature--History and criticism.<br/>Literature and society--Africa, East.<br/>Popular culture--Africa, East.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa, East--In literature.<br/>Africa, East--Intellectual life.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR9340.5  / .U73 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>820.9/9676