![]() Similar dynamism can be witnessed in Africa’s diasporic traditions. The hybridized forms of Africa’s dynamic popular urban arts reflect not only constant absorption of ideas from the outside but also long-standing adaptive processes through which Africans have always been innovative players in world forums. ![]() As Karin Barber notes, African popular arts fall between the cracks of “traditional” and “elite” or “modern” art. ![]() Ghanaian urban arts reflect a vibrant immediacy stemming from subjects of daily life-from soccer to hairstyles to music and film-whereas arts of urban Senegal conform to the aesthetics of a very particular mystical Islam realized through mass-produced images and inspired by photography.
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