Eric Charry is Associate Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. He is author of Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa and has published extensively on music in Africa.

Preface
African Rap: A Capsule History Eric Charry
Part I. Rap Stories (Ghana and South Africa)
1. The Birth of Ghanaian Hiplife: Urban Style, Black Thought, Proverbial Speech Jesse Weaver Shipley
2. A Genre Coming of Age: Transformation in the Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture of South Africa Lee Watkins
Part II. Griots and Messengers (Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and Malawi)
3. The Rapper as Modern Griot: Reclaiming Ancient Traditions Patricia Tang
4. Promises of the Chameleon: Reggae Artist Tiken Jah Fakoly's Intertextual Contestation of Power in Côte d'Ivoire Daniel Reed
5. Style, Message, and Meaning in Malawian Youth Rap and Ragga Performance John Fenn
Part III. Identity and Hybridity (Mali and Nigeria)
6. Mapping Cosmopolitan Identities: Rap Music and Male Youth Culture in Mali Dorothea E. Schulz
7. Nigerian Hip Hop: Exploring a Black World Hybrid Stephanie Shonekan
Part IV. East Coast (Kenya and Tanzania)
8. The Local and Global in Kenyan Rap and Hip Hop Culture Jean Ngoya Kidula
9. Infinite Flavors: Imitation and Innovation in the Music, Dress, and Camps of Tanzanian Youth Alex Perullo
Part V. Popular Music Panoramas (Ghana and Malawi)
10. Contemporary Ghanaian Popular Music Since the 1980s John Collins
11. Popular Music and Young Male Audiences in Contemporary Malawi Jochen Seebode
Part VI. Drumming (Mali)
12. Urban Drumming: Traditional Celebration Music in a West African City (Bamako) Rainer Polak
Music for an African 21st-Century Eric Charry
Bibliography
Discography
Videography
Webography
List of Contributors
Index