Download or read book Urban Legends, Colonial Myths written by James Ogude and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book on popular culture's role in mediating contemporary life and power relations in Africa, it demonstrates that popular cultural productions are not fixed to an unchanging social category as the basis for their creation but are defined by mobility of ideas, creative borrowing and improvisation. The authors also provide a compelling reading of how urban legends, rumours and jokes proliferate alongside pop music to express a sub-culture that is at once a critique and a celebration of modernity and its fragments.