GENDER, IDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE: UNDERSTANDING SWAHILI CULTURAL REALITIES THROUGH SONGS Black & African American Romance Fiction but eighteen years later she

but eighteen years later she is still not free

or is it central to any effective response to humanitarian crises

in her own life and across the life of our country

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In this landmark book

GENDER, IDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE: UNDERSTANDING SWAHILI CULTURAL REALITIES THROUGH SONGS Black & African American Romance Fiction but eighteen years later sheThis book analyzes the intersection between gender and identity within popular performance of the Swahili people of Mombasa. Juxtaposing cultural norms with everyday practices, Ntarangwi explores how gender and identity are practiced, constructed, mobilized, and contested through popular musical expressions known as taarab. By carefully examining the revelation and reconstitution of masculinities and femininities within these expressions, Ntarangwi