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Film, Leisure, and Urban Life in West Africa - Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema in Colonial West Africa By Odile Goerg. London: Hurst Publishers, 2020. Pp. 201. £45.00 hardcover, (ISBN: 9781787382053).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2021

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West Africaculturepopular cultureurbanmodernity
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The Journal of African History , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , July 2021 , pp. 307 - 309
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References

1 Goerg, O., Fantômas sous les tropiques: Aller au cinéma en Afrique coloniale (Paris, 2015)Google Scholar.

2 Fair, L., Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth-Century Urban Tanzania (Athens, OH, 2018)Google Scholar.

3 See Larkin, B., Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria (Durham, NC, 2008)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.