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    The De-Tribalized Generation: The East Africa Hip-Hop Artist.

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    2023-09
    Author
    Wabende, K
    Were, M.N.
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    Abstract
    The East African urban setting has produced a generation that lives within cultural grey areas that have no clear ethnic leanings. The youth who inhabit these urban spaces are caught in a world with forces that pull them in different directions. Their domestic space consists of parents from an older generation with strong affiliation to their ethnic groups, yet they still live among neighbors with different ethnic affiliation. They also live in a country that calls for national unity but is daily bombarded with ethnic rhetoric from politicians. The artists of this new generation are thus confronted with problems unique to an environment faced with many ambiguities such as lack of clear ethnic affiliations. They therefore seek to give identity and meaning to their existence, and to define their world as urbanites against the background of their ethnic origins. This paper examines the cosmopolitan thinking that has extended beyond ethnic and national boundaries among Kenyan hip-hop musicians. It explores the artistic demolition of ethnic and national boundaries by these hip-hop musicians.
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    http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/163798
    Citation
    Wabende, K. (2023). The De-Tribalized Generation: The East Africa Hip-Hop Artist. NGANO: Journal Of Eastern African Oral Literature, 2(2), 51-66.
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    KOLA
    Subject
    Youth, Identity, Kenya, East Africa, Urban Space, Hip Hop
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