Alfdaniels Mabingo
Biographic Data
| ID | 454569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alfdaniels Mabingo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alfdaniels |
| FAMILY NAME | Mabingo |
| SIGNATURE | MABINGO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Makerere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8255-7819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bibanda video halls in Uganda
In Uganda, bibanda video halls have emerged as important vernacular spaces where foreign films that circulate globally are translated, interpreted, and reimagined for local audiences. This paper examines bibanda video halls as spaces highlighting cultural and performative dimensions of vernacular transcreation and cinematic reworlding in progress. Drawing on site visits and artistic visualisations, interviews with veejays (video jockeys), video h…
Shifting Marginalities, Decentring Breakdance Masculinities
The history of male dominance and masculinised aesthetics in hip-hop has been well documented. The global trajectory of breakdance and its adaptation to cultural contexts has continued to carry traces of this hypermasculinity. This article offers a critical gaze on the marginal positionalities of three female breakdancers, who self-identify as pioneer B-girls in male-dominated breakdance scenes, revealing how they frame embodied practices, map im…
‘ Kola nga bwoyiga ate oyige nga bwokola’
The Covid-19 pandemic impacted dance practice in African communities, which at the time were still grappling with building technological infrastructure and resources to advance dance education, research, scholarship, and practice. How did the dance teachers and students in environments with less developed information and communication technological (ICT) infrastructure in African countries such as Uganda navigate online teaching and learning of d…
Exporting the Dance Traditions
Re-Contextualising Breakdance Aesthetics
Since its creation in the South Bronx in the 1970s, breakdance has proliferated worldwide. In the last three decades, urban youth in Uganda have reconfigured breakdance aesthetics to reflect their creative visions and imagination and in response to the local material conditions in Kampala city. This article examines how the youth have reconfigured, localised, and re-interpreted breakdance aesthetics. I analyse the ways in which breakdancers have …
Navigating gender issues, artistic innovations, community engagement and career paths in African dances
Teaching collaborative dexterity in higher education
This article draws on a multi-phase study of collaboration in tertiary education programmes. This commenced with a survey of 111 students in Engineering and Creative Arts, contrasting their experiences of the teaching of collaboration in different faculties. This led to an iterative action research cycle, in which the conceptual boundaries that surrounded teachers’ approaches to teaching collaboration were explored through qualitative interviews …
Reimagining and Reimaging Indigenous Dances and their Contexts of Practice in Postcolonial African Environments
The contexts of Indigenous dance practices in postcolonial African environments have continued to evolve. The phenomena of dance bears on the meanings that individual dance practitioners construct as active agents in Indigenous dance knowledge production. This work draws on the following question to examine how contexts of practice impel the reimagining and reimaging of dances, dancing, and the dancing body in Indigenous dance practices: What mea…
Ubuntu as Dance Pedagogy in Uganda
Teaching African Dances in the Caribbean
This article examines how pedagogy of African dances can act as a site where issues of Afrocentricity and horizontal interconnection can be activated, negotiated, and embodied. I draw on the selected reflections of the participants in dance workshops and my experiences as a teacher of Ugandan dances in Jamaica to demonstrate how pedagogy allowed the learners to embody, deconstruct, and conceptualize kinaesthetic, storied, and musicalized dance ma…
Ubuntu as Dance Pedagogy in Uganda
Re-Contextualising Breakdance Aesthetics
Since its creation in the South Bronx in the 1970s, breakdance has proliferated worldwide. In the last three decades, urban youth in Uganda have reconfigured breakdance aesthetics to reflect their creative visions and imagination and in response to the local material conditions in Kampala city. This article examines how the youth have reconfigured, localised, and re-interpreted breakdance aesthetics. I analyse the ways in which breakdancers have …
Reimagining and Reimaging Indigenous Dances and their Contexts of Practice in Postcolonial African Environments
The contexts of Indigenous dance practices in postcolonial African environments have continued to evolve. The phenomena of dance bears on the meanings that individual dance practitioners construct as active agents in Indigenous dance knowledge production. This work draws on the following question to examine how contexts of practice impel the reimagining and reimaging of dances, dancing, and the dancing body in Indigenous dance practices: What mea…
Teaching African Dances in the Caribbean
This article examines how pedagogy of African dances can act as a site where issues of Afrocentricity and horizontal interconnection can be activated, negotiated, and embodied. I draw on the selected reflections of the participants in dance workshops and my experiences as a teacher of Ugandan dances in Jamaica to demonstrate how pedagogy allowed the learners to embody, deconstruct, and conceptualize kinaesthetic, storied, and musicalized dance ma…
Ubuntu as Dance Pedagogy in Uganda
Navigating gender issues, artistic innovations, community engagement and career paths in African dances
Teaching collaborative dexterity in higher education
This article draws on a multi-phase study of collaboration in tertiary education programmes. This commenced with a survey of 111 students in Engineering and Creative Arts, contrasting their experiences of the teaching of collaboration in different faculties. This led to an iterative action research cycle, in which the conceptual boundaries that surrounded teachers’ approaches to teaching collaboration were explored through qualitative interviews …
Reimagining and Reimaging Indigenous Dances and their Contexts of Practice in Postcolonial African Environments
The contexts of Indigenous dance practices in postcolonial African environments have continued to evolve. The phenomena of dance bears on the meanings that individual dance practitioners construct as active agents in Indigenous dance knowledge production. This work draws on the following question to examine how contexts of practice impel the reimagining and reimaging of dances, dancing, and the dancing body in Indigenous dance practices: What mea…
Re-Contextualising Breakdance Aesthetics
Since its creation in the South Bronx in the 1970s, breakdance has proliferated worldwide. In the last three decades, urban youth in Uganda have reconfigured breakdance aesthetics to reflect their creative visions and imagination and in response to the local material conditions in Kampala city. This article examines how the youth have reconfigured, localised, and re-interpreted breakdance aesthetics. I analyse the ways in which breakdancers have …
Exporting the Dance Traditions
‘ Kola nga bwoyiga ate oyige nga bwokola’
The Covid-19 pandemic impacted dance practice in African communities, which at the time were still grappling with building technological infrastructure and resources to advance dance education, research, scholarship, and practice. How did the dance teachers and students in environments with less developed information and communication technological (ICT) infrastructure in African countries such as Uganda navigate online teaching and learning of d…
Bibanda video halls in Uganda
In Uganda, bibanda video halls have emerged as important vernacular spaces where foreign films that circulate globally are translated, interpreted, and reimagined for local audiences. This paper examines bibanda video halls as spaces highlighting cultural and performative dimensions of vernacular transcreation and cinematic reworlding in progress. Drawing on site visits and artistic visualisations, interviews with veejays (video jockeys), video h…
Shifting Marginalities, Decentring Breakdance Masculinities
The history of male dominance and masculinised aesthetics in hip-hop has been well documented. The global trajectory of breakdance and its adaptation to cultural contexts has continued to carry traces of this hypermasculinity. This article offers a critical gaze on the marginal positionalities of three female breakdancers, who self-identify as pioneer B-girls in male-dominated breakdance scenes, revealing how they frame embodied practices, map im…
Art (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Dance (6 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)