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Title Female slam poets of francophone Africa: spirited words for social change
Full text https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/africa/article/female-slam-poets-of-francophone-africa-spirited-words-for-social-change/1A86FA2D03F9BC8287F79EC5D6B20EBC#; https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3270697
Date 2021
Author(s) Bruijn, M.E. de; Oudenhuijsen, L.W.
Abstract Slam poets in Africa are part of an emerging social movement. In this article, the focus is on women in this upcoming slam movement in francophone Africa. For these women, slam has meant a change in their lives as they have found words to describe difficult experiences that were previously shrouded in silence. Their words, performances and engaged actions are developing into a body of popular knowledge that questions the status quo and relates to the 'emerging consciousness' in many African urban societies of unequal, often gendered, power relations. The women who engage in slam have thus become a voice for the emancipation of women in general. - Colonial and Global History
Subject(s) Poetry; Africa; Women; Identity
Language en
Type of publication Article / Letter to editor; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; Text
Format application/pdf
Source Africa
Rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier doi:10.1017/S0001972021000565; lucris-id:432741783
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
Added to C-A: 2022-11-21;09:04:44