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The strategic location of the Swahili people along the East African coast has placed them in the way of several newcomers, both local and foreign, who have come to the coast for various economic and political purposes. For this reason the Swahili have had to make adjustments to …

This study focuses on how gender is constructed, expressed, and symbolized in everyday interactions of the Swahili people of the Swahili people of Mombasa, Kenya, through an analysis of their popular music, taarab. Swahili music has often been categorized by scholars as belongin…