Edwin Mosoti
Biographic Data
| ID | 9232296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edwin Mosoti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mosoti |
| SIGNATURE | MOSOTI E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Taarab or songs of abuse
For long, it has been believed that song of abuse, as it has come to be called, is a preserve of west African communities. Early inroads into this oral subgenre were made by scholars who, more often than not, hailed from Ghana and Nigeria. A false impression of its locus was created to the effect that it was region-specific. This paper is an attempt to illustrate the pervasiveness of this verbal art, in disguised forms among the Swahili of East A…
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Taarab or songs of abuse
For long, it has been believed that song of abuse, as it has come to be called, is a preserve of west African communities. Early inroads into this oral subgenre were made by scholars who, more often than not, hailed from Ghana and Nigeria. A false impression of its locus was created to the effect that it was region-specific. This paper is an attempt to illustrate the pervasiveness of this verbal art, in disguised forms among the Swahili of East A…
Aesthetics (1 work) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Bantu languages (1 work) · Entertainment (1 work) · Feeling (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (1 work) · History (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work)