Solomon Waliaula
Biographic Data
| ID | 96293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Solomon Waliaula |
| GIVEN NAMES | Solomon |
| FAMILY NAME | Waliaula |
| SIGNATURE | WALIAULA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maasai Mara University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5982-3077 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cinema Narration as Oral Performance
This article examines cinema narration in Kenya, a practice that involves artists known as DJs working with audiences in specific socio-cultural contexts. This study uses ethnographic methods to analyse the work of one such practitioner, DJ Afro, and the reflections on his performance by two sets of audiences in Eldoret and Narok respectively. For this purpose, three Hindi films in DJ Afro's repertoire have been selected: Magadheera (2009, direct…
European football televisual spectatorship and social identity in Eldoret, Kenya
In the recent times, European football has become popular in the Sub Saharan world. Most studies have explored what is perceived as the European cultural influence on local societies and cultures and attributed this to the improved global media technology. Some studies have also explored what is described as new and innovative socio-cultural patterns of fandom. This article examines one particular social trend: the construction and performance of…
Kutuma Salamu on Public Service Radio and the Performance of Popular Culture
Radio is one of the mass media technologies that were readily absorbed in and adapted to the patterns of construction and integration of communities. Among non-elite Kenyans, radio was inserted into their performative practice of greetings through a quasi-interactive programme known as kutuma salamu, which literally translates as “sending greetings.” This article analyses the practices of kutuma salamu, a significant popular cultural phenomenon t…
Leisure, English Premier League soccer spectatorship and social identities in Nairobi and Eldoret, Kenya
The Covid-19 Pandemic and the social life of English Premier League Football Fandom in Eldoret, Kenya
English Premier League Football Fandom (hereafter referred to EPLFF) has infiltrated the everyday life of the ordinary people in Eldoret, working its way into the communal and commercial aspects of life here. Studies have shown that this trend is popular in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa as well. In this study we argue that this essentially global cultural form has been affected by the Covid-19 Virus Pandemic in ways that resonate with its soci…
Televisual cinema and social identities
Television in Kenya has in the recent past been dominated by Nollywood video films and Latin American telenovelas. This paper examines the social impact of these televisual cinemas on a community of young women spectators in Eldoret. I develop the argument that the televisual cinema practice not only improved young women's access to cinema but also influenced the process of young women's social identification. The paper is an ethnographic study b…
Ritualised Talk of English Premier League Football among Informal Market Vendors in Eldoret, Kenya
This article is based on an ethnographic study of a market vendors’ community in Eldoret. It examines their use of English Premier League (EPL) football as a resource to perform identities. It argues that the subject of EPL football is preferred among the participants because public demonstration of knowledge about this topic is perceived as a symbol of social prestige. This is a result of context-specific experiences with media technology. EPL f…
Oral narrative extension of sportmedia
This article is based on a cultural practice that has developed in the context of the interaction between Eldoret-based audiences of European football with the television medium through which they access this football. It is a practice that I will refer to here as the oral narrative extension of media. I describe and interpret it in the light of two conceptual frames; media practice theory and oral narrative performance. Two main arguments are de…
Active audiences of Nollywood video-films
This article explores the distinctively heuristic approach to Nollywood video-films used by a Bukusu-speaking audience community in Chwele Market, Western Kenya. As this audience views video-films on witchcraft in particular – which tend to be very popular – the reception process becomes remarkably dialogic. The process illuminates the audience’s adaptation of the video-films into their sociocultural world. Most important is that this audience se…
Envisioning and visualizing English football in East Africa
This paper examines Mohammed Juma Njuguna’s radio commentary on English Premier League football to a Kenyan audience. It observes that this commentator’s performance uniquely deviates from the play-by-play style of radio football commentary which we have known in Kenya. His focus is not limited to the football match event, and to comprehend it one has to consult other frames of interpretation beyond the football match event. These narratives not …
Active audiences of Nollywood video-films
This article explores the distinctively heuristic approach to Nollywood video-films used by a Bukusu-speaking audience community in Chwele Market, Western Kenya. As this audience views video-films on witchcraft in particular – which tend to be very popular – the reception process becomes remarkably dialogic. The process illuminates the audience’s adaptation of the video-films into their sociocultural world. Most important is that this audience se…
The Covid-19 Pandemic and the social life of English Premier League Football Fandom in Eldoret, Kenya
English Premier League Football Fandom (hereafter referred to EPLFF) has infiltrated the everyday life of the ordinary people in Eldoret, working its way into the communal and commercial aspects of life here. Studies have shown that this trend is popular in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa as well. In this study we argue that this essentially global cultural form has been affected by the Covid-19 Virus Pandemic in ways that resonate with its soci…
Oral narrative extension of sportmedia
This article is based on a cultural practice that has developed in the context of the interaction between Eldoret-based audiences of European football with the television medium through which they access this football. It is a practice that I will refer to here as the oral narrative extension of media. I describe and interpret it in the light of two conceptual frames; media practice theory and oral narrative performance. Two main arguments are de…
Televisual cinema and social identities
Television in Kenya has in the recent past been dominated by Nollywood video films and Latin American telenovelas. This paper examines the social impact of these televisual cinemas on a community of young women spectators in Eldoret. I develop the argument that the televisual cinema practice not only improved young women's access to cinema but also influenced the process of young women's social identification. The paper is an ethnographic study b…
Envisioning and visualizing English football in East Africa
This paper examines Mohammed Juma Njuguna’s radio commentary on English Premier League football to a Kenyan audience. It observes that this commentator’s performance uniquely deviates from the play-by-play style of radio football commentary which we have known in Kenya. His focus is not limited to the football match event, and to comprehend it one has to consult other frames of interpretation beyond the football match event. These narratives not …
European football televisual spectatorship and social identity in Eldoret, Kenya
In the recent times, European football has become popular in the Sub Saharan world. Most studies have explored what is perceived as the European cultural influence on local societies and cultures and attributed this to the improved global media technology. Some studies have also explored what is described as new and innovative socio-cultural patterns of fandom. This article examines one particular social trend: the construction and performance of…
Kutuma Salamu on Public Service Radio and the Performance of Popular Culture
Radio is one of the mass media technologies that were readily absorbed in and adapted to the patterns of construction and integration of communities. Among non-elite Kenyans, radio was inserted into their performative practice of greetings through a quasi-interactive programme known as kutuma salamu, which literally translates as “sending greetings.” This article analyses the practices of kutuma salamu, a significant popular cultural phenomenon t…
Leisure, English Premier League soccer spectatorship and social identities in Nairobi and Eldoret, Kenya
Ritualised Talk of English Premier League Football among Informal Market Vendors in Eldoret, Kenya
This article is based on an ethnographic study of a market vendors’ community in Eldoret. It examines their use of English Premier League (EPL) football as a resource to perform identities. It argues that the subject of EPL football is preferred among the participants because public demonstration of knowledge about this topic is perceived as a symbol of social prestige. This is a result of context-specific experiences with media technology. EPL f…
Envisioning and visualizing English football in East Africa
This paper examines Mohammed Juma Njuguna’s radio commentary on English Premier League football to a Kenyan audience. It observes that this commentator’s performance uniquely deviates from the play-by-play style of radio football commentary which we have known in Kenya. His focus is not limited to the football match event, and to comprehend it one has to consult other frames of interpretation beyond the football match event. These narratives not …
Active audiences of Nollywood video-films
This article explores the distinctively heuristic approach to Nollywood video-films used by a Bukusu-speaking audience community in Chwele Market, Western Kenya. As this audience views video-films on witchcraft in particular – which tend to be very popular – the reception process becomes remarkably dialogic. The process illuminates the audience’s adaptation of the video-films into their sociocultural world. Most important is that this audience se…
Oral narrative extension of sportmedia
This article is based on a cultural practice that has developed in the context of the interaction between Eldoret-based audiences of European football with the television medium through which they access this football. It is a practice that I will refer to here as the oral narrative extension of media. I describe and interpret it in the light of two conceptual frames; media practice theory and oral narrative performance. Two main arguments are de…
Ritualised Talk of English Premier League Football among Informal Market Vendors in Eldoret, Kenya
This article is based on an ethnographic study of a market vendors’ community in Eldoret. It examines their use of English Premier League (EPL) football as a resource to perform identities. It argues that the subject of EPL football is preferred among the participants because public demonstration of knowledge about this topic is perceived as a symbol of social prestige. This is a result of context-specific experiences with media technology. EPL f…
Televisual cinema and social identities
Television in Kenya has in the recent past been dominated by Nollywood video films and Latin American telenovelas. This paper examines the social impact of these televisual cinemas on a community of young women spectators in Eldoret. I develop the argument that the televisual cinema practice not only improved young women's access to cinema but also influenced the process of young women's social identification. The paper is an ethnographic study b…
The Covid-19 Pandemic and the social life of English Premier League Football Fandom in Eldoret, Kenya
English Premier League Football Fandom (hereafter referred to EPLFF) has infiltrated the everyday life of the ordinary people in Eldoret, working its way into the communal and commercial aspects of life here. Studies have shown that this trend is popular in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa as well. In this study we argue that this essentially global cultural form has been affected by the Covid-19 Virus Pandemic in ways that resonate with its soci…
Leisure, English Premier League soccer spectatorship and social identities in Nairobi and Eldoret, Kenya
European football televisual spectatorship and social identity in Eldoret, Kenya
In the recent times, European football has become popular in the Sub Saharan world. Most studies have explored what is perceived as the European cultural influence on local societies and cultures and attributed this to the improved global media technology. Some studies have also explored what is described as new and innovative socio-cultural patterns of fandom. This article examines one particular social trend: the construction and performance of…
Kutuma Salamu on Public Service Radio and the Performance of Popular Culture
Radio is one of the mass media technologies that were readily absorbed in and adapted to the patterns of construction and integration of communities. Among non-elite Kenyans, radio was inserted into their performative practice of greetings through a quasi-interactive programme known as kutuma salamu, which literally translates as “sending greetings.” This article analyses the practices of kutuma salamu, a significant popular cultural phenomenon t…
Cinema Narration as Oral Performance
This article examines cinema narration in Kenya, a practice that involves artists known as DJs working with audiences in specific socio-cultural contexts. This study uses ethnographic methods to analyse the work of one such practitioner, DJ Afro, and the reflections on his performance by two sets of audiences in Eldoret and Narok respectively. For this purpose, three Hindi films in DJ Afro's repertoire have been selected: Magadheera (2009, direct…
Media studies (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · History (6 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (6 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Football (5 works)