Review of Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent, edited by Oluwakemi M. Balogun, Lisa Gilman, Melissa Graboyes, and Habib Iddrisu

David Murphy is professor of French and postcolonial studies at the University of Strathclyde (Scotland). He has written widely on Francophone African, and particularly Senegalese, culture, as well as on the history of the black community in France. Major publications include a study of the pioneering Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene (James Currey, 2000), a critical edition of the writings of the Senegalese anticolonial militant Lamine Senghor (L’Harmattan, 2012), and the first volume devoted to the 1966 First World Festival of Negro Arts, held in Senegal (Liverpool University Press, 2016; paperback edition, 2021).