Abstract:Contents: Part 1 Censorship Issues: Popular music censorship in Africa, Martin Cloonan The cultural boycott against apartheid South Africa: a case of defensible censorship?, Michael Drewett Vocal kill...Contents: Part 1 Censorship Issues: Popular music censorship in Africa, Martin Cloonan The cultural boycott against apartheid South Africa: a case of defensible censorship?, Michael Drewett Vocal killers, silent killers: popular media, genocide, and the call for benevolent censorship in Rwanda, Dylan Craig and Nomalanga Mkhize Racist hate speech in South Africa's fragile democracy: The case of Ngema's 'AmaNdiya', Gary Baines ZVAKWANA! - Enough! Media control and unofficial censorship of music in Zimbabwe, Diane Thram And the beat goes on? Message music, political repression and the power of hip-hop in Nigeria, Wilson Akpan. Part 2 Case Studies: Traditional and popular music, hegemonic power and censorship in Malawi: 1964a 94, Reuben M. Chirambo Why don't you sing about the leaves and the dreams? Reflecting on music censorship in apartheid South Africa, Johnny Clegg and Michael Drewett Popular music censorship in Tanzania, Kelly M. Askew and John F. Kitime Silencing musical expression in colonial and post-colonial Kenya, Peter Muhoro Mwangi One hundred years of censorship in Ghanaian popular music performance, John Collins Where the shoe pinches: the imprisonment of Franco Luambo Makiadi as an unusual example of music censorship in ZaA-re, Graeme Ewens For a song: censure in Algerian Rai music, Malika Mehdid Concluding comments on the censorship of popular music in Africa, Martin Cloonan and Michael Drewett. Index.Read More