Abstract
The current discourse around the husband-bashing women in central Kenya, has elicited popular cultural productions that speak to the gender debate in the Gĩkũyũ community. This chapter looks at recent Gĩkũyũ popular songs that point to the intricate power play in marital relationships. While looking at the theme of love, or lack of it, as has been presented in the music, an art largely dominated by the men, the chapter argues that music has also led to a production of local idioms, stereotypes, and clichés in everyday life of the community. As Karin Barber argues, the functions of such in African popular culture could be treated as the point at which individual experience and shared concerns intersect. It is from this popular culture perspective that the chapter seeks to understand the current domestic strife.
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