Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- A Capsule History of African Rap -- Part 1. Rap Stories (Ghana and South Africa) -- 1. The Birth of Ghanaian Hiplife: Urban Style, Black Thought, Proverbial Speech -- 2. A Genre Coming of Age: Transformation, Difference, and Authenticity in the Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture of South Africa -- Part 2. Griots and Messengers (Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and Malawi) -- 3. The Rapper as Modern Griot: Reclaiming Ancient Traditions -- 4. Promises of the Chameleon: Reggae Artist Tiken Jah Fakoly's Intertextual Contestation of Power in Côte d'Ivoire -- 5. Style, Message, and Meaning in Malawian Youth Rap and Ragga Performances -- Part 3. Identity and Hybridity (Mali and Nigeria) -- 6. Mapping Cosmopolitan Identities: Rap Music and Male Youth Culture in Mali -- 7. Nigerian Hip Hop: Exploring a Black World Hybrid -- Part 4. East Coast (Kenya and Tanzania) -- 8. The Local and Global in Kenyan Rap and Hip Hop Culture -- 9. Imitation and Innovation in the Music, Dress, and Camps of Tanzanian Youth -- Part 5. Popular Music Panoramas (Ghana and Malawi) -- 10. Contemporary Ghanaian Popular Music since the 1980s -- 11. Popular Music and Young Male Audiences in Contemporary Malawi -- Part 6. Drumming (Mali) -- 12. Urban Drumming: Traditional Jembe Celebration Music in a West African City (Bamako) -- Music for an African Twenty-First Century -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ONLINE SOURCES -- DISCOGRAPHY -- VIDEOGRAPHY -- WEBOGRAPHY -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.