Kunnuji, Joseph2024-08-292024-08-292023Kunnuji, 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.2023.170740-1558 (online)https://doi.org/doi:10.1017/ytm.2023.17http://hdl.handle.net/11660/12762Before 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.enArticleAuthor(s)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/