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Professor Ntarangwi - Citations
Title
Cited by
Year
East African hip hop: Youth culture and globalization
M Ntarangwi
University of Illinois Press
252
2009
Reversed gaze: An African ethnography of American anthropology
M Ntarangwi
University of Illinois Press
122
2010
The challenges of education and development in post-colonial Kenya
M Ntarangwi
Africa development 28 (2)
118
2003
African Anthropologies: history, critique and practice
M Ntarangwi, D Mills, MHM Babiker
Zed Books
82
*
2006
Gender, identity, and Performance: Understanding Swahili cultural realities through song
M Ntarangwi
64
2003
Reflections on gender issues in Africa
KN Abraham, P McFadden
(No Title)
51
1999
But we know it all! African perspectives on anthropological knowledge
C Obbo
African anthropologies: History, critique and practice, 154-169
27
2006
A socio-historical and contextual analysis of popular musical performance among the Swahili of Mombasa, Kenya
M Ntarangwi
Cultural Analysis 2 (1), 37
25
2001
African hip hop and politics of change in an era of rapid globalization
M Ntarangwi
History Compass 8 (12), 1316-1327
24
2010
Gender, performance, & identity: understanding Swahili cultural realities through songs
M Ntarangwi
(No Title)
23
2003
The street is my pulpit: Hip hop and Christianity in Kenya
M Ntarangwi
University of Illinois Press
20
2016
Introduction: Parents’ involvement in children’s lives in Africa
M Ntarangwi
Africa Development 37 (3), 1–18-1–18
20
2012
Jesus and Ubuntu: exploring the social impact of Christianity in Africa
M Ntarangwi
Africa World Press
20
2011
Education, tourism, or just a visit to the wild?
M Ntarangwi
African Issues 28 (1-2), 54-60
19
2000
Malumbano or Matukano: Competition, Confrontation, and (De) Construction of Masculinity in the Taarab of Maulidi and Bhalo
M Ntarangwi
Mashindano! Competitive Music Performance in East Africa, 55-66
18
2000
Introduction: Histories of training, ethnographies of practice
M Ntarangwi, M Babiker, D Mills
African Anthropologies: History, Critique, and Practice, 1-48
16
2006
Hip-Hop, westernization and gender in East Africa
M Ntarangwi
Songs and politics in Eastern Africa, 273-302
15
2007
Taarab texts, gender, and Islam in an urban East African context: social transformations among the Waswahili of Mombasa, Kenya
MG Ntarangwi
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10
1998
Musical practice as a gender experience: Examples from Kenya and Zimbabwe
MG Ntarangwi
9
1999
" I have changed my mind now": US Students' Responses to Female Genital Cutting in Africa
M Ntarangwi
Africa Today, 87-108
8
2007
Mustafa Babiker, eds. 2006
M Ntarangwi, D Mills
African Anthropologies: History, Critique and Practice
7
Youth, music, and peace building
M Ntarangwi
Elsevier
6
2015
Refacing Mt. Kenya or excavating the Rift Valley? Anthropology in Kenya and the question of tradition
M Ntarangwi
Other people’s anthropologies: ethnographic practice on the margins, 83-96
6
2008
Music, identity and Swahili networks of knowledge
M Ntarangwi
Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa. Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
6
2007
African Anthropologies: History
M Ntarangwi, D Mills, M Babiker
Critique, Practice
5
2006
Feminism, Anthropology and Androcentrism: any link for a male ethnographer?
M Ntarangwi
Southern African Feminist Review 4 (1), 25
5
2000
African participation in, and perspectives on, the politics of knowledge production in Africanist anthropology
M Ntarangwi
A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa, 439-457
4
2019
African anthropology struggling along
M Ntarangwi
Anthropology News 46 (9), 9-10
4
2005
Feminism and masculinity in an African capitalist context: the case of Kenya
MG Ntarangwi
Southern African Feminist Review 3 (1), 19
4
1998
Engaging children and youth in Africa: Methodological and phenomenological issues
M Ntarangwi, G Massart
African Books Collective
3
2015
Generation X meets the Uhuru generation in East Africa
M Ntarangwi
Generation X Goes Global, 73-88
3
2012
Rethinking entrepreneurship and university education
M Ntarangwi
Academia Letters, 2
2
2021
Social media and youth popular culture in Kenya can counter political exploitation
M Ntarangwi
Africa at LSE
2
2020
Christian higher education: Global challenges, local practices
JA Carpenter, M Ntarangwi
Christian Higher Education 14 (1-2), 1-3
2
2015
Review of Honwana, Alcinda. The Time of Youth: Work, Social Change, and Politics in Africa. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press, 2012, xiv+ 222 pp.
M Ntarangwi
Journal of Retracing Africa 1 (1), 59-61
2
2014
Parents' involvement in children's lives in Africa
M Ntarangwi
Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA 37 (3)
2
2012
Sexuality and the culture of silence in relation to HIV/AIDS in East Africa: A popular cultural approach
M Ntarangwi
Strong women, dangerous times gender and HIV/AIDS in Africa, 203-218
2
2009
Reflections on the challenges of teaching anthropology to American students in post-colonial Kenya
M Ntarangwi
African Anthropologies: History, Critique and Practice, 214-236
2
2006
Revitalizing Anthropology in East Africa: The Birth of EAAA
M Ntarangwi
African Anthropologist 9 (1), 60-65
2
2002
University of Illinois Press
G Von Bonin, P Bailey
Urbana
2
1947
Listening to disrupt ethnographic representations
M Ntarangwi
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 11 (1), 273-280
1
2021
21. Straddling Two Worlds: Christian Leaders’ Responses to Witchcraft Accusations in DRC
M Ntarangwi
OKH Journal: Anthropological Ethnography and Analysis Through the Eyes of …
1
2020
Children’s lives and children’s voices: An exploration of popular music’s representation of children in East Africa
M Ntarangwi
Engaging Children and Youth in Africa: Methodological and Phenomenological …
1
2015
Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania
M Ntarangwi
african arts 44 (1), 90-92
1
2011
East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization. Mwenda Ntarangwi. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2009. 158 pp. ISBN: 978-0-252-076534 pb; 978-0-252 …
I Sanga
African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music 8 (4 …
1
2010
“Useless degrees”, quality assurance, and employable graduates: neoliberal effects on University Education in Kenya
M Ntarangwi
Etnográfica. Revista do Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, 479-492
2024
A decolonial anthropology: You can dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools
S Venkatesan, M Ntarangwi, D Mills, K Gillespie, N Davé, V Backhaus
Critique of Anthropology, 0308275X241253373
2024
Music, Identity, and Performance in East Africa
M Ntarangwi
The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance, 238-249
2023
Paul Ugor, ed. Youth Popular Culture in Africa: Media, Music, and Politics. Rochester: University of Rochester Press., 2021. xi+ 405 pp. $135.00. Cloth. ISBN 978-1-64825-024-8.
M Ntarangwi
African Studies Review 66 (3), 814-816
2023
Academic Border Crossing and an Anthropologist’s Excursions into Research on Theology and African Christianity
M Ntarangwi
Interconnectivity, Subversion, and Healing in World Christianity: Essays in …
2023
“Why Do You Behave Like That?”: Anthropological Inroads into Leadership in Kenya
M Ntarangwi
American Anthropologist 123 (1), 187-190
2021
AbdouMaliq Simone, Improvised Lives: rhythms of endurance in an urban South.
D Pratten, M Ntarangwi, RM Beck
Africa 91 (1), 127-133
2021
AbdouMaliq Simone, Improvised Lives: rhythms of endurance in an urban South. Cambridge: Polity (hb£ 45–978 1 509 52335 1; pb£ 14.99–978 1 509 52336 8). 2018, v+ 151 pp.
M Ntarangwi
Africa 91 (1), 129-130
2021
International African Institute Institut Africain International
W Adebanwi, J Archambault, M Bolt, B Soares, K Barber, E Hull
Revue de l’Institut Africain International 90 (5)
2020
Interactions Between Science and Religion in Kenya: Opening Remarks by the Chief Guest
M Ntarangwi
OKH Journal: Anthropological Ethnography and Analysis Through the Eyes of …
2019
on, the Politics of Knowledge Production in Africanist Anthropology
M Ntarangwi
A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa, 439
2018
A frica, S ubâS aharan, Emergence of Anthropology in
M Ntarangwi
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 1-18
2018
Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music
M Ntarangwi
Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa 13 (1-2), 113-115
2016
Anthropology in South Africa: Which Way Forward?
M Ntarangwi
American Anthropologist 117 (4), 763-764
2015
International African Institute Institut Africain International
D James, D Pratten, K Barber, I Nolte
Revue de l’Institut Africain International 85 (2)
2015
Public Worship and the Many Layers of Gospel-Shaped Reconciliation
DM Bailey, M Ntarangwi, K Smith, N Wolterstorff, D Rylaarsdam
2015
Until Justice and Peace Embrace: Worship that Announces and Shapes Reconciliation
DM Bailey, S Jammal-Hollemans, M Ntarangwi, K Smith, SM Van Opstal, ...
2015
Engaging Children and Youth in Africa
M Ntarangwi, G Massart
2015
Children and Youth in Africa: Annotated Bibliography 2001ñ2011
M Ntarangwi
CODESRIA
2014
The Street is My Pulpit: Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Gospel in Kenya
M Ntarangwi
2014
Live in Dar es Salaam: Popular Music and Tanzania's Music Economy by Alex Perullo
M Ntarangwi
American Ethnologist 40 (1), 233-234
2013
Chapter Ten Amending Eurocentric Narratives of African History in the US Classroom: A Popular Culture Approach
FN Waweru, M Ntarangwi
The Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success, 143
2013
Film Review: War Don Don
M Ntarangwi
Teaching Sociology 40 (3), 296-298
2012
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT AFRIQUE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, 2012
M Ntarangwi
AFRIQUE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT 37 (3)
2012
African Anthropologies in a Context of Evolving Needs
D Kyaddondo
Current Anthropology 50 (5), 739-740
2009
Alamin Mazrui. Swahili Beyond the Boundaries: Literature, Language, and Identity. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. Ohio University Research in International Studies: Africa …
M Ntarangwi
African Studies Review 52 (1), 220-222
2009
Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire
M Ntarangwi
Anthropological Quarterly 82 (3), 855-858
2009
Swahili Beyond the Boundaries: Literature, Language, and Identity, and: Utenzi, War Poems, and the German Conquest of East Africa: Swahili Poetry as Historical Source
M Ntarangwi
African Studies Review 52 (1), 220-222
2009
Our Mission
I Workspace
2009
Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development by Kristen E
M Ntarangwi
American Ethnologist 35 (3), 3022-3024
2008
African Anthropologies: History, Critique and Practice
NK Poku
Development in Practice 18 (2), 295-297
2008
Globalization and Social Policy in Africa
M Ntarangwi
Africa Development/Afrique et Développement 31 (3), 189-191
2006
Let me die with dignity: creating meaningful homecare: programmes for people living with AIDS in Bungoma, Kenya
M Ntarangwi, M Elmore-Megan
African Anthropologist 13 (1-2), 9-25
2006
Book Reviews/Notes de lecture
M Ntarangwi
Africa Development 31 (3), 189–194-189–194
2006
'I Have Changed my Mind Now': Students' Responses to Female Circumcision in Africa
MG Ntarangwi
2005
Society Members: The Challenges of Education and Development in Kenya
M Ntarangwi
Confronting Twenty-first Century Challenges: Analyses and Re-dedications by …
2004
African Studies and the Development of Social Anthropology in South Africa (1921-2001)
M Ntarangwi
African Anthropologist 11 (1), 67-96
2004
Taarab as a Swahili Musical Tradition
M Ntarangwi
Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education Series 4, 48
2002
Study Abroad in Africa
P Mlama, FA Dolphyne, D Wiley, W Cressey, J Coffman, M Ntarangwi, ...
2001
MARTINE R. GALLOY KENYAN WOMEN AND ELECTORAL PROCESS
MGN FEMINISM, ME SIBANDA, N SMITH, J GORDON
Southern African Feminist Review: SAFERE. 3 (1)
1999
Feminism and masculinity in African capitalist context: the case of Kenya
M Ntarangwi
Southern Africa Political & Economic Monthly 13 (2), 50-53
1999
AND PERFORMANCE IN EAST AFRICA
M Ntarangwi
International African Institute Institut Africain International
K Barber, D Pratten, I Nolte, W Adebanwi, K Amanor, K Askew, L Bank, ...
Co-Sponsoring Organizations
J Byfield, G Clark, P Little, G Mikell, D Pellow, E Sall, O Sene, J Yanco, ...
Dakar Futures Ellen E. Foley
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