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Title: | Kibiriti Ngoma: Gender Relations in Swahili Comics and Taarab-Music |
Authors: | Beez, Jigal Kolbusa, Stefanie |
Year: | 2003 |
Periodical: | Stichproben - Vienna Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 5 |
Pages: | 49-71 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | gender relations Swahili comic strips music singing Architecture and the Arts Women's Issues Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Literature, Mass Media and the Press arts mass media Cultural Roles |
External link: | https://stichproben.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_stichproben/Artikel/Nummer05/Nr5_Beez_Kolbusa.pdf |
Abstract: | 'Kibiriti Ngoma' is a Swahili slang expression, which is a despising description for a woman meaning 'prostitute'. In Tanzania this term became so common in everyday life that it was chosen to be the title of a Taarab song as well as the name of a comic magazine. This article compares the use of the term 'Kibiriti Ngoma' in these two genres of popular art in Tanzania, thus highlighting the popular discourse on gender relations and sexuality in East Africa. Comic magazines and Taarab music as forms of popular culture serve in this article as an analytical lens to understand social processes. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and German. [Journal abstract] |