Musical figures of enslavement and resistance in Semzaba's Kiswahili play Tendehogo.
This article examines the use of musical figures in a Kiswahili play, Tendehogo. Written by an eminent Tanzanian playwright named Edwin Semzaba, the play recounts how slave trade was conducted by Arab traders in East Africa during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It tells about the experienc...
| Publicado en: | African Studies Vol. 79; no. 3; pp. 323 - 339 |
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