Gender, States, and Markets in Africa

Sahle, Eunice N.

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“…In its concerns and articulations, Babaluku's activist image in Uganda aligns with the historical tradition of black nationalist discourse, within which hip-hop circumscribes a counterdiscursive masculinist Afrocentric ideal, signifying power thorough authenticity and allegiance (Cheney 2005; Dyson 1995). Uganda, like elsewhere in Africa, shows a legacy of gender-based inequites rooted in colonial practices of accumulation with relevance to labour, value and production (Sahle 2008). Like Gasuza and Atlas, his image is marked in a fundamental fashion by his own lived experiences as a young black man in North America: just as Atlas and Gasuza construct theirs signified through various forms of masculinist ‘street-cred’.…”

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The Ugandan hip-hop image: the uses of activism and excess in fragile sites

Singh

2020

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This article discusses the characteristics of image in Ugandan hip-hop with a particular focus on representations of activism and excess. Locating Uganda as a fragile site on the basis of widespread political, social and economic marginalisation, this examination considers members of Uganda's first generation of hip-hop artists, to argue that both activism and excess act in singular response to these circumstances. Finding articulation in strivings for economic freedom and social justice, the Ugandan hip-hop image reveals negotiations of histories of colonialism and of contemporary neoliberal capitalism: in doing so, it raises intersections of race and gender, informed by hip-hop's significance as a multi-billion-dollar global industry. This cross-disciplinary inquiry combines ethnomusicology with media, cultural and visual studies in dialogue with political economy.

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Section: ‘Give Them a Food Programme An Education Programme Everyonmentioning

confidence: 99%