Dominica Dipio
Biographic Data
| ID | 177883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominica Dipio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominica |
| FAMILY NAME | Dipio |
| SIGNATURE | DIPIO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Makerere University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ubuntu as Aesthetics and a Frame to Decentre Dominant Ideologies
The paper argues that ‘traditional’ Bakiga communities appreciated the values of Ubuntu as aesthetics in their day-to-day lives. Ubuntu values, as aesthetics in Bakiga storytelling performances, have received little scholarly attention. The paper argues that Ubuntu values served as a framework for rupturing and decentring dominant ideologies that sought to engender hegemonic masculinity. The study analyses a 1993 cassette-recorded tale, Kabugu-ka…
A feminist reading of motherhood in selected Athenian and Akan plays
This article employs a feminist perspective to interrogate the concept of motherhood and the expectations of mothers in selected Athenian and Akan plays. The plays of the two distinct communities and eras (Athenian and Ghanaian; classical and contemporary) are assessed to appreciate what is distinct and shared, as well as what is static and changing between the two communities and eras, in the representation and perception of women. Issues of sti…
The World around the Mother as a Gift in African Folktales and Fountain of Radical Joy
In this article, I analyse selected African folktales that foreground the role of mothers in the everyday. The purpose is to appreciate the cultural logic of their representation in relation to the other characters. In the folktales, family is defined around the mother. The father is either conspicuously absent or peripheral. The mother's self-giving and love towards the family are often radical and come with great sacrifice. Although desirable, …
Gender Terrains in African Cinema
Gender Terrains in African Cinema reflects on a body of canonical African filmmakers who address a trajectory of pertinent social issues. Dipio analyses gender relations around three categories of female characters the girl child, the young woman and the elderly woman and their male counterparts. Although gender remains the focal point in this lucid and fascinating text, Dipio engages attention in her discussion of African feminism in relation to…
Telenovelas in Uganda
In this article, I explore how a selected category of Ugandan audiences watch telenovelas, and the reasons for their preferring them over other similar programmes on DSTV. I investigate how audiences relate to telenovelas in relation to more culturally familiar programmes in Uganda/Africa. What is it about transcultural programmes like the telenovelas that engage the local audiences? African countries like South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya have ha…
Religion in Nigerian Home Video Films
The relationship between religion and art, as forms of cultural expression, is an inextricable one. Both are concerned with the fundamental human search for the good, the true and the beautiful. The religious sense of a people is inscribed in their artistic productions. Both art and religion are universal and fundamental human values and they use similar forms of expression. In order for a work of art to have a popular appeal, artists articulate …
Performing Wisdom
Traditional Leadership Wisdoms and Their Contemporary Parallels — The Madi of Uganda
Film Review
Tarfaya , Directed by Daoud Aoulad Syad (2004, Morocco/France, Mandala Productions, 97 mins.)
Telenovelas in Uganda
In this article, I explore how a selected category of Ugandan audiences watch telenovelas, and the reasons for their preferring them over other similar programmes on DSTV. I investigate how audiences relate to telenovelas in relation to more culturally familiar programmes in Uganda/Africa. What is it about transcultural programmes like the telenovelas that engage the local audiences? African countries like South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya have ha…
Religion in Nigerian Home Video Films
The relationship between religion and art, as forms of cultural expression, is an inextricable one. Both are concerned with the fundamental human search for the good, the true and the beautiful. The religious sense of a people is inscribed in their artistic productions. Both art and religion are universal and fundamental human values and they use similar forms of expression. In order for a work of art to have a popular appeal, artists articulate …
Film Review
Tarfaya , Directed by Daoud Aoulad Syad (2004, Morocco/France, Mandala Productions, 97 mins.)
Performing Wisdom
Traditional Leadership Wisdoms and Their Contemporary Parallels — The Madi of Uganda
Religion in Nigerian Home Video Films
The relationship between religion and art, as forms of cultural expression, is an inextricable one. Both are concerned with the fundamental human search for the good, the true and the beautiful. The religious sense of a people is inscribed in their artistic productions. Both art and religion are universal and fundamental human values and they use similar forms of expression. In order for a work of art to have a popular appeal, artists articulate …
Gender Terrains in African Cinema
Gender Terrains in African Cinema reflects on a body of canonical African filmmakers who address a trajectory of pertinent social issues. Dipio analyses gender relations around three categories of female characters the girl child, the young woman and the elderly woman and their male counterparts. Although gender remains the focal point in this lucid and fascinating text, Dipio engages attention in her discussion of African feminism in relation to…
Telenovelas in Uganda
In this article, I explore how a selected category of Ugandan audiences watch telenovelas, and the reasons for their preferring them over other similar programmes on DSTV. I investigate how audiences relate to telenovelas in relation to more culturally familiar programmes in Uganda/Africa. What is it about transcultural programmes like the telenovelas that engage the local audiences? African countries like South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya have ha…
The World around the Mother as a Gift in African Folktales and Fountain of Radical Joy
In this article, I analyse selected African folktales that foreground the role of mothers in the everyday. The purpose is to appreciate the cultural logic of their representation in relation to the other characters. In the folktales, family is defined around the mother. The father is either conspicuously absent or peripheral. The mother's self-giving and love towards the family are often radical and come with great sacrifice. Although desirable, …
Ubuntu as Aesthetics and a Frame to Decentre Dominant Ideologies
The paper argues that ‘traditional’ Bakiga communities appreciated the values of Ubuntu as aesthetics in their day-to-day lives. Ubuntu values, as aesthetics in Bakiga storytelling performances, have received little scholarly attention. The paper argues that Ubuntu values served as a framework for rupturing and decentring dominant ideologies that sought to engender hegemonic masculinity. The study analyses a 1993 cassette-recorded tale, Kabugu-ka…
A feminist reading of motherhood in selected Athenian and Akan plays
This article employs a feminist perspective to interrogate the concept of motherhood and the expectations of mothers in selected Athenian and Akan plays. The plays of the two distinct communities and eras (Athenian and Ghanaian; classical and contemporary) are assessed to appreciate what is distinct and shared, as well as what is static and changing between the two communities and eras, in the representation and perception of women. Issues of sti…
Sociology (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (2 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works)