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Musical Figures of Enslavement and Resistance in Semzaba by Juan Diego González Bustillo is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The article examines a Kiswahili play called Tendehogo written by Edwin Semzaba that recounts East African slave trade. The play uses songs as literary devices to represent African and Arab identities, enslavement, and resistance. It analyzes how two songs in the play are used to enact identities and social relations between slave traders and captives. The songs function as tools of domination and means of resisting psychological enslavement.
- Author
- Juan Diego González Bustillo
- Language
- EN