Special Issue:

Translocal Popular Cultures

edited by Birgit Englert

Translocal Popular Culture. Foreword

Birgit Englert

Articles

Movies on the Move: Transnational Video Film Flows and
the Emergence of Local Video Film Industries in East Africa

Daniel Künzler

Encountering Chinese Modernity: The Emerging Popularity of Chinese Television Drama in East Africa

Wei Lei

"The Illusion of Being a Free Spirit” -
Mobile Phones and Social Media in Transit Places of Migration with the Example of the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya

Claudia Böhme

On Notions of (In)Visibility and Diaspora Space:
The Case of Batuku as a Popular Cultural Practice in Lisbon

Hanna Stepanik

Kulturelle Mobilisierungen ‚franko-komorischer Diaspora’
in Marseille – Intersektionelle Verhandlungen

Katharina Fritsch

Report

Rastafari Repatriation to Ethiopia and the All-Africa Rastafari Gathering (AARG)

Dominik Frühwirth

Reviews

Kirsten Rüther: 

BIERLING, Stephan. 2018. Nelson Mandela. Rebell, Häftling, Präsident. München: Verlag C.H. Beck. 416 Seiten.

Katharina Wurzer: 

LUNDT, Bea/ MARX, Christoph (eds.). 2016. Kwame Nkrumah 1909-1972. A Controversial African Visionary. (Historische Mitteilungen der Ranke-Gesellschaft – Beiheft 96) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 208 pp.

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