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State of Travesty: Jokes and the Logic of Socio-Cultural Improvisation in Africa

  • Obadare E
Critical African Studies (2010) 2(4) 92-112
DOI: 10.1080/20407211.2010.10530759
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What can humour accomplish when faced with unbending state power in a continent ravaged by the most horrendous fatalities? If comics cannot remove sit-tight despots, of what use are they? How does ...

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Obadare, E. (2010). State of Travesty: Jokes and the Logic of Socio-Cultural Improvisation in Africa. Critical African Studies, 2(4), 92–112. https://doi.org/10.1080/20407211.2010.10530759

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