- Collection:
- Africana Digital Ethnography Project (ADEPt)
- Title:
- Music of Kuria, Kenya and Tanzania: Waisa Praise-Singing, Part 2
- Date of Original:
- 2013-09-03
- Subject:
- Kuria language
Women poets
Festivals--Kenya - Location:
- Kenya, Migori, Ntimaru, -1.34057, 34.68777
- Medium:
- streaming video
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
application/pdf - Description:
- On September 3, 2013, three days after the inaugural Kuria Cultural Festival, we visited the best female poet (Waisa) in a small village in Southwestern Kenya, just metres from the Tanzania border. Michael Derek Gideon studied the poetry and music of Kuria for nine months in 2013, with the guidance and expertise of teacher and scholar, Peter Muniko. Keywords: Praise-Singing; Kuria District; Kenya; African Music.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://radar.auctr.edu/islandora/object/adept.kuj%253A0004.003
- Additional Rights Information:
- This video is in copyright. For more information or to request a use not granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC), please contact Aaron Carter-Enyi (aaron.carterenyi@morehouse.edu).
- Original Collection:
- Africana Digital Ethnography Project: Kikuria Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Rights:
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