Skype, Facebook & Chat Rooms: New Modes of Expression and Changing Gender Relations among Swahili Youth at Home and Abroad

Rebecca Gearhart

Skype, Facebook & Chat Rooms: New Modes of Expression and Changing Gender Relations among Swahili Youth at Home and Abroad

Illinois Wesleyan University

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Abstract

 Though Indian Ocean trade and the Islamic religion are generally believed to be the
 impetus for the Swahili people’s cosmopolitan sensibility, certainly long distance
 courtship and marriage intensified Swahili translocal identity and continue to do so.
 Today, the internet and cell phones facilitate communication between those
 separated by distance. Communication has never been so cheap or so easy, a
 situation that has allowed for the creation of virtual translocal spaces, where people
 can “meet” and “chat” privately ways that were previously unimaginable. An
 example of this is the open communication that young people of the opposite sex
 now enjoy in Lamu Town, Kenya.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Translocal Connections across the Indian Ocean
State	Published - 2018

Disciplines

Anthropology
Family, Life Course, and Society
Sociology of Culture

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