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Introduction -- The Popular Media Sphere: Theoretical Interventions. De-westernizing Media Theory To Make Room For African Experience / Francis Nyamnjoh -- Revisiting Cultural Imperialism And Its Critics / P. Eric Louw -- At The Crossroads Of The Formal And Popular: Convergence Culture And New Publics In Zimbabwe / Wendy Willems -- Theorising Development And Democracy Through Popular Community Media / Victor Ayedun-aluma -- Talk Radio, Democracy And Citizenship In (south) Africa / Tanja Bosch -- Popular Media, Politics And Power: Engaging With Democracy And Development. Popular Music As Journalism In Africa: Issues And Contexts / Winston Mano -- Street News: The Role Of Posters In Democratic Participation In Ghana / Audrey Gadzekpo -- If You Rattle A Snake, Be Prepared To Be Bitten?: Popular Culture, Politics And The Kenyan News Media / George Ogola -- Post-apartheid South African Social Movements On Film / Sean Jacobs -- Audiences, Agency And Media In Everyday Life. The Amazing Race In Burkina Faso / H. Leslie Steeves -- (south) African Articulations Of The Ordinary, Or, How Popular Print Commodities (re)organize Our Lives / Sonja Narunsky-laden -- Popular Tv Programmes And Audiences In Kinshasa / Marie-soleil FrÔre -- New Technologies As Tools Of Empowerment: African Youth And Public Sphere Participation / Levi Obijiofor -- Identity And Community Between The Local And The Global. Transnational Flows And Local Identities In Muslim Northern Nigerian Films: From Dead Poets Society Through Mohabbatein To So? / Abdalla Uba Adamu -- Local Stories, Global Discussions. Websites, Politics And Identity In African Contexts / Inge Brinkman... [et Al.] -- Survival Of Radio Culture In A Converged Networked New Media Environment / Okoth Fred Mudhai -- Policing Popular Media In Africa / Monica Chibita. Edited By Herman Wasserman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.