Gangbe in Badagry, Nigeria: Ogu women’s performance practice, social status, and creative agency
| dc.contributor.author | Kunnuji, Joseph | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-29T06:34:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-29T06:34:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Before colonialism, Gbe women enjoyed a social status on par with men. However, there has been a shift in the postcolonial social structure of Gbe societies. Modern capitalism, which accompanied colonial structures, privileged men, eroding many woman-empowering practices. This article examines Ogu women’s marginality through an ethnographic study of gangbe (a musical genre exclusive to married Ogu women). I argue that the sources of Ogu women’s marginality are interlocking, involving oppression stemming from colonial structures and the values of contiguous Yorùbá people. I propose a collaborative intervention that upends typical power structures that privilege Western and Yorùbá ideation over Indigenous Ogu knowledge, values, and practices. | |
| dc.description.version | Publisher's version | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kunnuji, J. (2023). Gangbe in Badagry, Nigeria: Ogu women’s performance practice, social status, and creative agency. Yearbook for Traditional Music, 55(2), 171-191. https://doi.org/doi:10.1017/ytm.2023.17 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0740-1558 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/doi:10.1017/ytm.2023.17 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11660/12762 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | |
| dc.rights.holder | Author(s) | |
| dc.rights.license | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.title | Gangbe in Badagry, Nigeria: Ogu women’s performance practice, social status, and creative agency | |
| dc.type | Article |