Positioning and making citizenship through Obama K’Ogelo Cultural Festivals in Siaya County, Kenya.
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies, Jg. 29 (2017-06-01), Heft 2, S. 194-210
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This paper examines how cultural festivals are used as both symbols and instruments for producing and claiming citizenship in Kenya. It analyses in particular the Obama K'Ogelo Cultural Festival, held in 2008 and 2010, to commemorate the election and presidency of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States of America (U.S.A.). The two events were used in the first place to position President Obama in Kenya. More importantly, I argue in this paper, the Luo people of K'Ogelo used it in documenting their ethnographies and as an instrument of positioning themselves in Kenya's body politic, contesting narratives of exclusion as well as claiming their human rights. This paper develops an interpretation of the K'Ogelo Cultural Festival in the light of the Kenyan Constitution-making debate on the subject of 'culture' and the public comments of the U.S. ambassador to Kenya at the time (Michael Ranneberger). At the local level in K'Ogelo, these festivals are primarily used by local intellectuals and their courtiers to develop an ethnography of Luos and Luoness. In addition, the festivals were used to claim the presidency of Obama in support of the argument that Luos are good enough to be leaders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Kitabu ni lero kaka nyasi madongo mag kit oganda itiyogo kuom nyiso kido kod ranyisi moko mag dwaro kendo loso bedo jokanyo ei piny kaka mar Kenya. Moloyo, oluwo kaka nyasi maduong mar dhood jo-K'Ogelo mar higa ka higa, mane otim e higa 2008 kod higa 2010, nyiso rapar mar yiero kod loch mar wuod K'Ogelo, Migosi Barrack Hussein Obama, kuom bedo mare e kom maduong mar ker mar 44 e piny Riwruok mar Amerka (U.S.A.). Nyasi ariyogo ne otigo mokuongo kuom diero Migosi Obama kaka jathur-ka kata wuod lowo e piny Kenya. To maduong moloyo, oganda Luo mae piny Kenya medo tiyo kod nyasi kailagi kuom rito kendo dhialo kitgi gi timbegi e dier ogendni mamoko kendo nyiso lemo margi kuom loch mar rito piny Kenya. Ma nyiso ni oganda joka nyanam tiyo gi nyasi gi kuom dwaro kendo rito pok margi mane Nyasaye osemiyogi kendo ma Katiba maduong bende osiro kaka achiel kuom oganda ei piny Kenya. Kuom mano, kitabuni chiwo achiel kuom temo lero kuom yor tiegruok, lemo mar nyasi maduong mar dhood jo-Kogelo, moloyo ka ingiyo kuom katiba maduong morito piny mane okadh e higa 2010, kendo ma osemiyo duong kido kod timbe mag oganda duto ei thur-ka. Bende oyaro tiend twak moko mane ochiw kod jachung maduong mar piny Riwruok mar Amerka (U.S.A.) e piny Kenya a kinde mane Barrack Obama okawo e loch, Migosi Michael Ranneberger. Kendo ka inono matut ei jo-Kogelo giwegi, yudore ni nyasi gi itiyo kod jonanga kata josomo mag jo-Kogelo kuom gero nyadhi margi kaka dho-ot moluor ei piny Luo. Kuom mago duto, nyasi ariyogi ne otigo kuom diero loch mar Migosi Barrack Obama kendo kuom dhiale kaka ranyisi makende maonge kiawa ni Oganda Luo oromo rito piny. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Positioning and making citizenship through Obama K’Ogelo Cultural Festivals in Siaya County, Kenya.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Akoth, Steve Ouma |
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Zeitschrift: | Journal of African Cultural Studies, Jg. 29 (2017-06-01), Heft 2, S. 194-210 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2017 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1369-6815 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1080/13696815.2017.1297698 |
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