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Periodical article |
Title: | Globalizing East African Culture: From Junk to jua kali Art |
Author: | Swigert-Gacheru, Margaretta |
Year: | 2011 |
Periodical: | Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (ISSN 1569-1500) |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 127-142 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | East Africa Kenya |
Subjects: | arts culture globalization |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1163/156914911X555152 |
Abstract: | Despite Africa's experience of economic decline, poverty, political instability and disease, keen observers of the cultural landscape have reckoned that cultural productivity in the region is on the rise, leading scholars to refer to the phenomenon as an African Renaissance. This is particularly the case in Kenya where a contemporary art movement is flourishing through both local art worlds and global networks. But the question remains: how in the midst of poverty and political instability can there be so much cultural productivity? Based on field research involving participant observation and interviews with more than 200 artists and cultural workers in Kenya's capital city, I argue that it is largely due an 'emergent cultural practice' given the Kiswahili term jua kali. |