DIRECTIONS:

*Attempt only two questions.
*Question # 1, Section A, is compulsory.
*Choose one more question from Section B.
*Keep your answers clear, concise and analytical.
*Address your responses to the specific demands of each question.
*Limit your answers to 4 (double-spaced, 12-pitch font) pages per question.
*Illustrate your answers with pertinent references, and cite key sources consulted.
*No haphazard submission of papers or excuses for late papers would be accepted.
*Your answer script must include the questions chosen, your name, and be submitted in PDF.

QUESTIONS:

SECTION A

1) Analyze, with subtleties, the cultural, social, institutional, and political networks fundamental to understanding the relationship between new media technologies and African popular culture.

SECTION B

2) With attention to the unique social and critical worlds evoked, analyze the complex interplay between the ‘political’ and the ‘popular’ in contemporary African cartoons and comic strips.

3) Drawing upon relevant scholarship and ‘popular’ sources, discuss how widespread patterns of leisure create critical fields, with respect to gender, culture and class, in African soccer fandom.

4) Examine how Big Brother Africa, astride tensions between ‘realities’, raise issues about ‘entertainment’, shared experiences, fantasies and contemporary African cultural formations.

5) Noting the historical and aesthetic frameworks, explore how the evolution of African studio photography open unique spaces for art, projecting identities, status, dreams and social dynamics.

Again, you may use outside sources, where such would enhance your responses, and, crucially, there are NO specifications about how many sources MUST be cited. In brief, assigned materials and, if pertinent, any other scholarly source that supports your arguments would do.It will be graded for depth and logical flow; particularly, as they integrate assigned readings and other creditable sources. So, overall, qualify your responses, where necessary, to demonstrate finespun understandings of the issues. Good scholarship refrains from sweeping generalizations, bad grammar, and haphazard organization.You may use ALL available, authentic, scholarly, resources in writing but must, as a matter of academic integrity, acknowledge them in your bibliography. Be mindful of plagiarism, very wary of non-academic web sources and, especially, please, keep away from WIKIPEDIA as citations from it are null and void for this class. Please, ensure that your papers are scholarly, well edited, written in the MLA format, and contain full bibliographical references (when applicable). Also, please, collate your order together with the first question from SECTION A on top; that is, before any other chosen from SECTION B.

YOU DID AMAZING LAST TIME, GREAT JOB!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!