- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Abbreviations
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Interlude
- 3 Born in Africa (1990)
- 4 Tears Run Dry
- 5 Singing in the Shadow of Death
- 6 Music, HIV/AIDS, and Social Change in Nairobi, Kenya
- 7 Interlude
- 8 Using Music to Combat AIDS and Other Public Health Issues in Malawi
- 9 Visual Approaches to HIV Literacy in South Africa
- 10 Ngoma Dialogue Circles (Ngoma-Dice)
- 11 Interlude
- 12 HIV/AIDS Poster Campaigns in Malawi<sup>1</sup>
- 13 Contemporary Uses of the Musical Arts in Botswana’s HIV/AIDS Health Education Initiatives
- 14 “We Are the Loudmouthed HIV-Positive People”
- 15 “C’est Le Wake Up! Africa”
- 16 Singing Songs of AIDS in Venda, South Africa
- 17 Interlude
- 18 Aesthetics and Activism
- 19 A Lady Who is an Akadongo Player
- 20 “What Shall We Do?”
- 21 Swahili AIDS Plays
- 22 Confronting AIDS through Popular Music Cultures in Kenya
- 23 Interlude
- 24 Siphithemba—We Give Hope
- 25 Young and Wise in Accra, Ghana
- 26 Singing as Social Order
- 27 “I’m a Rich Man, How Can I Die?”
- 28 Interlude
- 29 <i>Kwaito</i> and the Culture of AIDS in South Africa
- 30 Positive Disturbance
- 31 “EdzI Ndi Dolo” (“AIDS is Mighty”)
- 32 Representing HIV/AIDS in Africa
- 33 Postlude
- About the Authors
- References
- Index
Ngoma Dialogue Circles (Ngoma-Dice)
Ngoma Dialogue Circles (Ngoma-Dice)
Combating HIV/AIDS Using Local Cultural Performance in Kenya
- Chapter:
- (p.111) 10 Ngoma Dialogue Circles (Ngoma-Dice)
- Source:
- The Culture of AIDS in Africa
- Author(s):
Mjomba Majalia
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter draws on its author’s experience as a head teacher and community organizer among the Taita people of Kenya to provide an account of HIV education through drama. The chapter notes how modern health outreach programs typically overlook relevant local sites of communication, especially as found in local schools. It consequently describes the author’s attempts to establish a forum for educational outreach and “candid dialogue” among primary and secondary school students. Through experiential ingoma (local cultural performances in Kenya that include song, dance, poetry, talk-singing and proverbs) grassroots events, the author pilots a forum intended to spur young people to represent their own needs in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Kenya. The chapter also demonstrates the rhetorical agency of local cultural performances and their tremendous potential to organize and mobilize for social change within grassroots communities in Africa.
Keywords: drama, Taita people, Kenya, HIV education, schools, ingoma, young people, HIV/AIDS, cultural performances, social change
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Abbreviations
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Interlude
- 3 Born in Africa (1990)
- 4 Tears Run Dry
- 5 Singing in the Shadow of Death
- 6 Music, HIV/AIDS, and Social Change in Nairobi, Kenya
- 7 Interlude
- 8 Using Music to Combat AIDS and Other Public Health Issues in Malawi
- 9 Visual Approaches to HIV Literacy in South Africa
- 10 Ngoma Dialogue Circles (Ngoma-Dice)
- 11 Interlude
- 12 HIV/AIDS Poster Campaigns in Malawi<sup>1</sup>
- 13 Contemporary Uses of the Musical Arts in Botswana’s HIV/AIDS Health Education Initiatives
- 14 “We Are the Loudmouthed HIV-Positive People”
- 15 “C’est Le Wake Up! Africa”
- 16 Singing Songs of AIDS in Venda, South Africa
- 17 Interlude
- 18 Aesthetics and Activism
- 19 A Lady Who is an Akadongo Player
- 20 “What Shall We Do?”
- 21 Swahili AIDS Plays
- 22 Confronting AIDS through Popular Music Cultures in Kenya
- 23 Interlude
- 24 Siphithemba—We Give Hope
- 25 Young and Wise in Accra, Ghana
- 26 Singing as Social Order
- 27 “I’m a Rich Man, How Can I Die?”
- 28 Interlude
- 29 <i>Kwaito</i> and the Culture of AIDS in South Africa
- 30 Positive Disturbance
- 31 “EdzI Ndi Dolo” (“AIDS is Mighty”)
- 32 Representing HIV/AIDS in Africa
- 33 Postlude
- About the Authors
- References
- Index
