HOW WOMEN ARE PORTRAYED IN KAMBA PRAISE SONGS

This article helps to bring light on how women are portrayed by looking at some praise songs from the Akamba people in Kenya. To clearly highlight how the woman is perceived by the artists from the Kamba people, we shall take a look at artist to clearly understand whatever they illustrate in their songs and how they portray women in their songs. This article is based on the African Feminism. The theory helped us to investigate the qualities of an Africa woman as depicted by the artists' oat ha Akamba praise songs. The article starts with an introduction where the background of women and indulgement of women has been explained, the themes that can be drawn from the Akamba praise songs and finally there is a conclusion that gives a summary of the issues tackled in the article.