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Jizingatie

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FUCK MYSOGYNY. FUCK FEMICIDE.

A piece commissioned by REC-ON; created to address the misogyny and colonialism and their undeniable link within the Kenyan context.

Kenya is a wonderful nation , but its women are suffering at the hands of misogyny and complacency to misogyny.Worse still people are mistakenly claiming this disease as their cultural heritage when in fact indeginous cultures before colonialism had nothing to do with this.

How men and women treated each other changed with exposure to the toture of the white British colonialists. Women’s roles changed with the killing of their men and their forced departure to work on white farms and fight white wars.

This piece brings to our attention that we need to look back for solutions and within.

lyrics

Focus on yourself and leave me alone
Focus on yourself and understand the source of your problems.

Focus on yourself and where you came from.
Remember your foremothers were equal to your forefathers, when we were free.
We all lived in harmony.
Didn't you know?
Misogyny was an import.
Much like the flowers and the coffee.

Focus on yourself
And look beyond the lies (the lies)
And the thoughts they made you think were yours. (they're not yours

Focus on yourself and question your thirst for blood,
Is it symbolic revenge,
For what they did to you? To us?

Focus on yourself and ask yourself those difficult questions.
Focus on yourself and yourself alone.
Focus on yourself and LEAVE WOMEN ALONE.

They brought coffee, flowers and misogyny
(Haha, it’s kinda funny)

Can you see what you're doing is exactly what they did to us?
You're keeping the spirit of war crimes and genocide alive,
You’re keeping it alive with the femicide
(me ata sikuwagi fan)
The teachers of misogyny are now freeing their women
But you wanna stay behind and pretend this shit is African


You're keeping the spirit of war crimes and genocide alive,
You’re keeping it alive with the femicide

(me ata sikuwagi fan)

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from IPO, track released October 29, 2022

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Nabalayo Nairobi, Kenya

Nabalayo is a Nairobi-based music maker, illustrator and East African Griot.

Her music is composed in the Changanya genre that she pioneered.

The music she makes is ethereal, combining light airy vocals with complex African idioms and heavy electronic sounds to give her listeners an experience that is out of this world. ... more

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