Stand-up Comedy in Africa Humour in Popular Languages and Media.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nwankwọ, Izuu
Other Authors:	Tunca, Daria, Nwankwo, Izuu, Donian, Jennalee, Lipenga, Ken Junior, Okadigwe, Nkechi Mary, El-Sawy, Amany, Osuolale-Ajayi, Ibukum, El-Shokrofy, Ebtesam, Kahyana, Danson Sylvester
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin : Ibidem Verlag, 2022.
Subjects:	Stand-up comedy. Stand-up comedy
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Intro
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction: Old Wine in a New Bottle: Stand-up Comedy and its Dispersal across Africa
Part I Resisting and Reinventing the Status Quo
Chapter 1 Confronting Racism and Colonialism in Cécile Djunga's and Trevor Noah's Stand-up Comedy
Chapter 2 South African Vernacular Stand-Up Comedy as Performative Resistance
Chapter 3 The People's Joker: The Popularity of Mr Jokes' Stand-up Comedy in Malawi
Chapter 4 Resisting Shame and the Male Gaze: Humour Evocations in the Acts of Noha Kato and Real Warri Pikin
Chapter 5 Discourse and Humour Strategies in Two-Person Stand-up Art in Nigeria
Part II Circumventing Censorship and Taboo
Chapter 6 In the Shadow of the 1994 Genocide: Arthur Nkusi and Stand-up Comedy in Rwanda
Chapter 7 The Afterlife of Ugandan Stand-up Comedy: Examining the Multiple Roles and Jocular Devices of Teacher Mpamire
Chapter 8 Scripted and Non-Scripted Humour in Stand-up Comedy: Techniques of Egypt's Comedian Ali Quandil
Chapter 9 Reinventing Taboo in Kenyan Stand-up Comedy
Part III Mechanics of being a Comedian
Chapter 10 Africa on the British Stage: Laughter-Making Mechanics of Andi Osho and Daliso Chaponda
Chapter 11 There's No Such Thing as 'Too Soon' Here: Taking Stock of South Africa's Comedy Boom
Chapter 12 The Many-Sides of Kenyan Stand-up Comedy: A Stylistic Interrogation of the Acts of Jemutai, Professor Hamo and Oga Obinna
Chapter 13 Nigeria's The Mock News with Pararan: The Poetics of its Punchline
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