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Contributors from various artistic genres and from social sciences sample the explosion of cultural production across Africa. Among the topics are survival dynamics and the Zimbabwe music industry, the reformulation of visual and performance genres of the Mukanda school of Zambia, and modernity and expressions of outward forms of religiosity in the Vihiga district of western Kenya. The 12 essays were revised from presentations at the 2007 Annual Social Science Campus, organized each year by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). Six of them are in French, reflecting influences of the countries they examine. The anthology is not indexed. Distributed in North America by the African Books Collective. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)