- Title
- Critical analysis of the role played by izidlalo zabafazi in amaXhosa women’s psycho-socio health
- Creator
- Wayise, Siphenkosi
- Description
- African tribes have found that traditional songs are one of the most crucial factors in fostering cohesion, solidarity and communication between physical and non-physical entities as well as knowledge of culture and cultural activities. Traditional women's songs, or izidlalo zabafazi, are amongst the most potent tools utilized by the AmaXhosa tribe. Women mostly use these songs to communicate their emotions about various situations. Before Westernization had an impact, women used izidlalo zabafazi to talk about and deal with terrible times and challenging circumstances, such as verbal, emotional, physical and all other forms of abuse experienced by them. This indicates that these songs were especially important in providing a platform for women to express themselves by singing, acting and reacting to their many struggles. Since women today also experience many difficulties, particularly those that have an emotional impact on them, this prompted the researcher to investigate whether the significance of these songs can be exposed as a traditional platform where women can express themselves about their marital matters and be viewed as traditional therapeutic systems to be used by AmaXhosa women even in our day and age…
- Description
- Degree: M. Arts
- Date
- 2023
- Subject
- Izidlalo zabafazi
- Subject
- Psycho-socio health
- Subject
- Therapy
- Subject
- Women
- Type
- Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/13502
- Identifier
- vital:78939
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Walter Sisulu University
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