{"id":993161,"date":"2025-04-15T15:50:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/tp1-research-trip-to-congo-brazzaville-rwanda-and-kenya-in-spring-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:09:30","slug":"tp1-research-trip-to-congo-brazzaville-rwanda-and-kenya-in-spring-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/tp1-research-trip-to-congo-brazzaville-rwanda-and-kenya-in-spring-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Research trip of Subproject 1 to Congo-Brazzaville, Rwanda and Kenya in spring 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In March and April 2025, Hauke Dorsch, Antonia Fendt and Nico Nassenstein undertook a four-week research trip to Congo-Brazzaville, Rwanda and Kenya. The trip originally planned for Kinshasa (D.R. Congo) was adjusted in light of the security situation on the ground and thematic expansions.\nIn the Republic of Congo, the focus was on building networks with colleagues from the Universit\u00e9 Marien Ngouabi, who were involved in the UNESCO application for recognition of the Congolese rumba as an intangible world cultural heritage, among other things. The focus was also on research into Congolese rumba - in the capital Brazzaville on the banks of the Congo River and on the Atlantic coast in Pointe Noire. In the East African countries, the researchers addressed the question of how Congolese rumba music is received and (re)produced outside Kinshasa and the D.R. Congo. During the Mobutu era, numerous artists from what was then Zaire migrated to neighboring countries such as Rwanda, Kenya or Tanzania as a result of political repression, violence, instability and high competitive pressure.\nIn Nyagatare, Rwanda, colleagues from the University of Rwanda gained their first insights into the KOSTIMA research project.\nUsing oral history interviews, participant observation and sociolinguistic interviews with actors from the local music scene, topics such as the articulation of political content in music, questions about hidden messages and the choice of language in song lyrics were examined. <\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Exchange at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Marien Ngouabi (Brazzaville) with Prof. Yvon-Pierre Ndongo-Ibara (linguist), Prof. Joachim Emmanuel Goma-Thethet (historian), Prof. Jean F\u00e9lix Yekoka (historian), Dr. Stevio Ulrich Baral-Angui (historian), Romain Bouesso Samba (musicologist<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>
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Prof. Joachim Emmanuel Goma-Thethet reporting on the inclusion of Congolese rumba as intangible cultural heritage<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>
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Interview with Floris Manza on the role of Congolese rumba in Pointe Noire (Republic of Congo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>
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Live performance by musician Blad and his band in Pointe Noire (Republic of Congo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>
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Interview with G\u00e9rald Bantsimba \u2018May\u2019s Bantsimba\u2019 (trumpet player and director of the band Les Bantous de la Capitale)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>
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Presentation of the Kostima project by Hauke Dorsch, Nico Nassenstein and Antonia Fendt in Nyagatare (Rwanda)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>
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Campus of the University of Rwanda in Nyagatare (Rwanda)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>
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The Mainz team with research assistant Carter Omende, Prof. Jean Paul Ngoboka (linguist) and other colleagues from the University of Rwanda<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>
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Interview with Congolese musician Julio Diatos in Mombasa (Kenya)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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In March and April 2025, Hauke Dorsch, Antonia Fendt and Nico Nassenstein undertook a four-week research trip to Congo-Brazzaville, Rwanda and Kenya. The trip originally planned for Kinshasa (D.R. Congo) was adjusted in light of the security situation on the ground and thematic expansions. In the Republic of Congo, the focus was on building networks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":993118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993164,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993161\/revisions\/993164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}