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Understanding The Meanings Represented In Ditolobonya Songs: Basotho Women’s Experiences And Realities
ISSN: 2617 - 0299
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Understanding The Meanings Represented In Ditolobonya Songs: Basotho Women’s Experiences And Realities
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Publisher: International Journal Of Linguistics, Literature And Trans..
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Abstract
For a very long time, women have been silenced in expressing their feelings and talking about their experiences in their societies dominated by patriarchal ideologies. For this reason, Basotho women use ditolobonya songs (through pitiki) in an effort to deal with the abuse, ill-treatment and all the hardships they go through in their relationships and marriages. This study is necessitated by the discovery I made while listening to these songs that somehow they portray what Basotho women go through in their lives ranging from issues of love, appreciation of a partner, problems they encounter in their relationships, more especially their marriages, to how they are ill-treated by their in-laws as well as their own husbands. As a result, this triggered me to analyze ditolobonya songs to understand what Basotho women go through and how they express their feelings through these songs. The aim of this study therefore is to investigate the ex...
