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Cultural traditions in Kenya
Celebrates a year of holidays and traditions representing Kenya's many cultural groups. Learn about the strong tradition of song and dance in Kenya and also how family occasions are celebrated in this African country.
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Oral storytelling and national kinship: Reflections on the oral narrative performance in the Kenya Schools and Colleges Drama Festivals
The story, in the form of the oral narrative, has always been a communalizing genre in the traditional African setting. It then functioned as a tool that brings together not only the artist and the particular audience, but also the entire community within which the performances are derived and performed. However, postcolonial, modern and global situations have greatly impacted on the traditional kinship structures in Africa and kinship fostering tools like the African oral narrative have not been spared. The introduction of the oral storytelling onto the proscenium stage in the Kenya Schools and Colleges Drama Festivals (KSCDF) has contributed to perpetuate the performance of this genre to significant degrees. This move has not only recalled attention to oral narratives, but also has revolutionized the performance and functional aspects of oral storytelling. Various aspects of the oral narrative genre have changed, from the multi-ethnic audience to the elaborate narrative structures and the varying orientations of the oral artists in KSCDF. The dramatic elements of the narrative have also been enhanced to justify its inclusion within the wider dramatic genre. This article investigates the structural and thematic reorientations of the contemporary Kenyan oral narrative and how it influences the reorientations of kinship in a postcolonial reality characterized by heterogeneous consumer audience and the need for national commonality. The aim is to understand the reorientations of oral storytelling and its scripted machinations of multi-ethnicity woven into the narrative as part of its contemporarily requisite features; the question is whether or not these reorientations enable the ideological adoption of some form of kinship across the diverse ethnic groups in Kenya.
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Oral storytelling and national kinship : reflections on the oral narrative performance in the Kenya Schools and Colleges Drama Festivals : dossier - orality and technauriture of African literatures
Oral storytelling and national kinship The story, in the form of the oral narrative, has always been a communalizing genre in the traditional African setting. It then functioned as a tool that brings together not only the artist and the particular audience, but also the entire community within which the performances are derived and performed. However, postcolonial, modern and global situations have greatly impacted on the traditional kinship structures in Africa and kinship fostering tools like the African oral narrative have not been spared. The introduction of the oral storytelling onto the proscenium stage in the Kenya Schools and Colleges Drama Festivals (KSCDF) has contributed to perpetuate the performance of this genre to significant degrees. This move has not only recalled attention to oral narratives, but also has revolutionized the performance and functional aspects of oral storytelling. Various aspects of the oral narrative genre have changed, from the multi-ethnic audience to the elaborate narrative structures and the varying orientations of the oral artists in KSCDF. The dramatic elements of the narrative have also been enhanced to justify its inclusion within the wider dramatic genre. This article investigates the structural and thematic reorientations of the contemporary Kenyan oral narrative and how it influences the reorientations of kinship in a postcolonial reality characterized by heterogeneous consumer audience and the need for national commonality. The aim is to understand the reorientations of oral storytelling and its scripted machinations of multi-ethnicity woven into the narrative as part of its contemporarily requisite features; the question is whether or not these reorientations enable the ideological adoption of some form of kinship across the diverse ethnic groups in Kenya.
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Music, HIV/AIDS, and Social Change in Nairobi, Kenya
This chapter explores how music is playing an integral role in HIV/AIDS interventions and an agent of social change in Nairobi, Kenya. It begins with a review of the history and status of HIV/AIDS in Kenya before turning to a discussion of HIV/AIDS music performances in Nairobi. In particular, it considers the challenges facing musicians who wish to respond to HIV/AIDS, and how they can produce music the populace will want to hear, while at the same time living in a society that regulates messages about HIV/AIDS. It also looks at how music is used in numerous schools, children’s centers, and youth programs, with particular emphasis on the Kenya Music Festival, to speak about AIDS and other concerns within their communities. Finally, it offers some suggestions on the possibilities and problems of using music for HIV/AIDS programs.
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Positioning and making citizenship through Obama K'Ogelo Cultural Festivals in Siaya County, Kenya
This paper examines how cultural festivals are used as both symbols and instruments for producing and claiming citizenship in Kenya. It analyses in particular the Obama K'Ogelo Cultural Festival, held in 2008 and 2010, to commemorate the election and presidency of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States of America (U.S.A.). The two events were used in the first place to position President Obama in Kenya. More importantly, I argue in this paper, the Luo people of K'Ogelo used it in documenting their ethnographies and as an instrument of positioning themselves in Kenya's body politic, contesting narratives of exclusion as well as claiming their human rights. This paper develops an interpretation of the K'Ogelo Cultural Festival in the light of the Kenyan Constitution-making debate on the subject of 'culture' and the public comments of the U.S. ambassador to Kenya at the time (Michael Ranneberger). At the local level in K'Ogelo, these festivals are primarily used by local intellectuals and their courtiers to develop an ethnography of Luos and Luoness. In addition, the festivals were used to claim the presidency of Obama in support of the argument that Luos are good enough to be leaders.
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Promoting sustainable festival events tourism: a case study of Lamu Kenya
Purpose - Tourism has been a key force in promoting festival growth and expansion. Towns, villages and cities are increasingly keen to share their culture, environment and spending opportunities with visitors by the promotion of festivals. One such festival is held annually in Lamu Old Town, a world heritage site in Kenya. The purpose of the paper is to highlight the importance of hosting sustainable events in Kenya.Design methodology approach - The subject scope is on maintaining sustainable events within local communities with an aim of improving the local economy.Findings - Results suggest that although festivals may have the potential to provide opportunities for sustainable local economic development, such opportunities frequently remain unexploited. For these reasons, festivals' engagement with tourism forces in Lamu need to be carefully managed, both in the interests of sustaining festivals and of promoting sustainable approaches to tourism development.Practical implications - In addition to their cultural and social values, cultural festivals have emerged as an instrument for tourism development, tourism seasonality expansion, city image improvement and boosting regional economies. Therefore, the implications will be to invest in festivals development and community engagement and present the tourist with authentic experiences.Originality value - This article is valuable to policy makers as not enough research has been done on the importance of this festival and the need to provide a significant role to the local people in Lamu in communicating their identity, history and cultural practices.
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Map Room
The modern city has been a place of perpetual reinvention-its true diversity often leaving vast urban areas unmarked on most maps. Mega-cities give birth to cities within themselves, like the Roppongi Hills complex inside Tokyo. Temporary cities appear, built on makeshift infrastructures. England's Glastonbury Festival has an entirely portable, \"pop-up\" economy, while Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp (the world's largest) has its own mobile judicial system. These alterna-cities reveal new insights into our capability for innovation. And, until now, they have remained all but invisible -Hannah Oppenheimer. Adapted from the source document.
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Investigators in Russia are now scouring the details of theblast near Moscow that killed the daughter of prominent VladimirPutin's ally, Alexander Dugin, who some people believe may have beenthe original target instead of Darya Dugina. Russian state mediapoints their blame to Ukraine over Darya Dugina's death but Ukraine'sgovernment denies the allegation. Congresswoman Liz Cheney who lostbig in Wyoming's GOP primary told ABC News that she has no regrets forstanding for democracy and that she will make sure Donald Trump don'tget the chance to occupy again the Oval Office. A new NBC poll showsthat at least 6 out of 10 people say that the January 6 investigationshould continue even after the FBI's search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. A federal appeals court say that Senator Lindsey Grahamdoesn't need to testify for now in connection with former PresidentTrump's effort to change election results in Georgia. Pakistan'sformer Prime Minister Imran Khan is under investigation for aterrorist act after he protested along with his supporters in thecapital over the allege abuse of his aide Shahbaz Gill who is underpolice custody since August. Authorities in Somalia are still siftingthrough the rubble of Hyatt hotel where standoff between armed forcesand Al-Shabaab group killed at least 21 and injured more than 100people Sunday GUESTS: Jessica Levinson
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