1) The cultural, social, institutional, and political networks key to understanding the relationship between new media technologies and African popular culture. SECTION B 2) How pervasive patterns of leisure create critical fields, with respect to gender and class, in soccer fan cultures in Africa. 3) How Big Brother Africa, raise issues about ‘entertainment’, shared experiences and contemporary African cultural formations. 4) How the evolution of African studio photography open unique spaces for art, the projection of identities, social realities and dynamics. 5) How the complex interactions between the ‘political’ and the ‘popular’ in contemporary African cartoons and comic strips evoke unique critical fields..