Description: Explores the range of vibrant cultural production and political activism of youth in Africa today, as expressed through art, music, theater, and online media.
Brief description: DAVID KERR is Honorary Research Fellow, Department African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham and Research Associate, University of Johannesburg. He is the author of Stowaways on the Indian Ocean: Migration, Memory and Masculinity (2021), and a contributor to Young People and Popular Culture in Africa (University of Rochester Press, 2021). He is editing a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies on 'Quotidian Archives: Popular Culture, Meaning-Making and Everyday Life in Eastern Africa' (forthcoming, 2021). His articles have been published in the Journal of African Media Studies, the Journal of African Cultural Studies, among others.