Aaron Mushengyezi

Biographic Data

ID126796
NAMEAaron Mushengyezi
GIVEN NAMESAaron
FAMILY NAMEMushengyezi
SIGNATUREMUSHENGYEZI A
AFFILIATIONSMakerere University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS19
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX2

  • Riddling Among the Banyankore and Baganda in Uganda

    Aaron MushengyeziARTICLEMatatu2013

  • Graham Furniss , Orality

    Open AccessAaron MushengyeziARTICLELanguage in Society2007References: 5

    Graham Furniss , Orality: The power of the spoken word. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. vii, 184. Hb $75.00. Most books written on the subject of orality and literacy are constructed upon an edifice of binary oppositions between the “oral” and the “written” traditions – a typology of supposed differences between the “primitive” or “preliterate” and “civilized” or “modern” cultures. In Orality: The power of the spoken word , Graham Furniss…

  • Reimaging Gender and African Tradition? Ousmane Sembene's Xala revisited

    Aaron MushengyeziARTICLEAfrica Today2004Cited by: 4

    In the film Xala, Ousmane Sembène's interrogation of gender, African tradition, and modernity in postindependence Africa is problematic in many ways. While Sembène reimages gender and tradition in contemporary Africa, his vision is also surreal and romanticized. The paper critiques several binary oppositions which Sembène seems to create in Xala: between the "decadence" of modernity and the "purity" of African tradition, and between revolutionary…

  • Reimaging Gender and African Tradition? Ousmane Semb ne'sXalarevisited

    Aaron MushengyeziARTICLEAfrica Today2004Cited by: 2References: 4

    In the film Xala, Ousmane Sembene's interrogation of gender, African tradition, and in postindependence Africa is problematic in many ways. While Sembene reimages gender and tradition in contemporary Africa, his vision is also surreal and romanticized. The paper critiques several binary oppositions which Sembene seems to create in Xala: between the decadence of and the purity of African tradition, and between revolutionary, masculine women and vi…

  • Rethinking indigenous media

    Aaron MushengyeziARTICLEJournal of African Cultural Studies2003Cited by: 13References: 1

    The current discourse on globalization has many far-reaching implications not only for African economics and politics, but also for the vital question of how we communicate in a ‘global village’. African governments and their development partners often tend to extrapolate communication models from the developed world and apply them wholesale in local environments in Africa that are quite unique. This paper argues that such communication strategie…