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Community musicking and musical cognition among adungu music communities of the Acholi people from Awach, Gulu district, Northern Uganda
(Research Studies in Music Education, 2024-07-31)This ethnographic inquiry investigated the nature of musical cognition that engagements in the Ugandan Acholi people’s adungu music culture engender, what can be understood about musical cognition in nonwesternized oral ... -
Democratising the Theatre for Development (TfD) Space through Balancing Power Dynamics: Analysing Practice-Based Experiences from Uganda
(Routledge, 2024)The awareness of power dynamics is fundamental in the implementation of a democratic Theatre for Development (TfD) process. This chapter draws from the author’s practical experiences with TfD practice in Uganda to advocate ... -
Namadu drum music and dance as mediation of healing rituals among the Bagwere people of Uganda
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-03)This article reports on a study that investigated the Namadu healing ritual of the Bagwere people of Uganda. The ritual involves drumming, singing and dancing, as well as sacrificing chicks, birds and animals towards gaining ... -
Thinking about sustainability in Theatre for Development projects: my experience of how the politics of funding shapes TfD practice
(Taylor & Francis, Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 2021-12-07)This article examines the complexity of embedding the element of sustainability to foster successful TfD practice. I recount my own experience as a TfD practitioner in western Uganda, where, in spite of my effort to execute ... -
Experimenting with child empowerment through Theatre for Development (TfD) in Uganda: my experience with a child rights TfD project in Gganda-Wakiso
(Consciousness, Literature and the Arts., 2018-04-01)The Convention on the Rights of the Child guarantees the child’s freedom of expression, thought and association. It upholds child’s freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kind, regardless of ... -
Namadu drum music and dance as mediation of healing rituals among the Bagwere people of Uganda
(Taylor& FrancisOnline: Journal of Music Research in Africa., 2021-03-18)This article reports on a study that investigated the namadu healing ritual of the Bagwere people of Uganda. The ritual involves drumming, singing and dancing, as well as sacrificing chicks, birds and animals towards gaining ... -
Indigenous music learning in contemporary contexts: nurturing learner identity, agency, and passion
(Research Studies in Music Education., 2021-02-20)I studied the revival project that involved teaching and (re)learning of a nearly extinct music tradition of the Basoga people from Uganda, to find out what might be learnt about and from those learning processes, and ... -
Can indigenous music learning processes inform contemporary schooling
(International Journal of Music Education, 2021-02-24)This autoethnographic study investigated possibility of incorporating indigenous pedagogies into Ugandan school music and, possibly, general education. School music education in Uganda currently occurs within a colonial-influenced ...
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