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Title: | Kimondo, satire, and political dialogue: electioneering through versification |
Author: | Njogu, Kimani |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Research in African Literatures |
Volume: | 32 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 1-13 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | elections Swahili language satire |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/research_in_african_literatures/v032/32.1njogu.pdf |
Abstract: | This article examines a type of poetry that exists on Lamu, on the northern coast of Kenya, in which political electioneering is conducted through poetry. Parliamentary hopefuls may hire the services of popular poets, who then sing their praises while simultaneously ridiculing their opponents, who hire their own poets to respond to the accusations. These competing poems are either sung in public or electronically transmitted through cassettes. This satirical poetry in Lamu has come to be known as 'kimondo' (pl. 'vimondo'). Bibliogr., note. |