“Kuna Corona fake na Og”
The Role of Postcolonial Laughter during the Covid-19 Outbreak in Tanzania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20390037 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angelus Mnenuka (0000-0001-5479-7658, Institute of Kiswahili Studies, University of Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam Tanzania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 1-26 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The African Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0856-0056 • E-ISSN: 1821-889X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/1821889x-bja10075 |
| OpenAlex | W4391998110 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
Scholars are basically divided in their perception of the functions of postcolonial humour. One block ascribes it to the role of criticising postcolonial governments for maladministration. Another group ascribes it to ridiculing the masses for their passivity to unjust rulers. In addition, there is also a middle group that does not specifically assign the art to either side. Taking these varying opinions as a point of departure and the novelty of COVID -19 humour, the researcher adapted multimodality and social semiotics to analyse and ascertain the role of postcolonial humour used in debates about COVID -19 in Tanzania during the peak of the malady. In this regard, the study reports that besides entertainment function, COVID -19 postcolonial humour reminded people from all walks of life to take responsibility in the fight against the disease. Thus, the findings confirm that postcolonial humour in social media, like other traditional African verbal arts, criticises undesirable societal practices regardless of a person’s social and political status
Aesthetics · Art · Entertainment · Epistemology · Ethnology · Laughter · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Semiotics · Social science · Sociology · Tanzania · Technoscience · The arts · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Gender Studies · Humor Studies and Applications · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Language, Context, and Text
Hybrid Habitus
Introducing Social Semiotics
Multimodality
The Covid‐19 epidemic
Social media for rapid knowledge dissemination
Covid-19 pandemic – an African perspective
A king is not above insult
Political Power and Social Theory
Understanding the buffering effect of social media use on anxiety during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown
How Adolescents Use Social Media to Cope with Feelings of Loneliness and Anxiety During Covid-19 Lockdown
Jokes, humour, and society
The Neoliberal State and Management of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Nigeria
A Satellite View of Language
Portrayal of the Covid-19 pandemic in political cartoons in Tanzania
Religious construction of disease
Covid-19 Pandemic in Africa, “Copy-and-Paste” Policies, and the Biomedical Hegemony of “Cure”
The why of humour during a crisis
Decolonising global health in the time of Covid-19
Joke-Performance in Africa
State of Travesty
A pleasure working with you’
Comic Strips and “the Crisis”
The ancient roots of humor theory
Geopolitics of Power and Knowledge in the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Art of Criticism
Political Cartoons, Post-Colonialism and Critical African Studies
Using social and behavioural science to support Covid-19 pandemic response
Viewing postcolonial Dar es Salaam, Tanzania through civic spaces
Power Marginality and African Oral Literature
The Uses of Ridicule
Humor as a Double-Edged Sword
The Banality of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in the Postcolony
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |