#3934. “China, Unaona Mkono Yangu Ama Una-nini?”: The Wedding Engagement between Kenya and China in the Churchill Comedy Show

August 2026publication date
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Literature and Literary Theory;
Visual Arts and Performing Arts;
Music;
Cultural Studies;
Language and Linguistics;
Linguistics and Language;
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Abstract:
Comedy shows are an acute barometer of social contexts as they are embedded in power relations and often constructed as a space of resistance. In 20XX, a clip circulated widely of a female comedian on stage. In the clip they discuss the debt issue through romantic metaphors of an “engagement” ceremony before the wedding, including both expressions of love and bargaining about bride price. This article argues that humour and laughter help in carving out a space for open discussions and critical reflections on the debt issue within human relations. At the same time, the humour jointly generated through a reiteration of tropes of nationhood, separation of languages and gendered expressions runs the risk of taking interpersonal relations back to rigidly divided national, ethnic and gendered categorisations and representations.
Keywords:
Show; gender; Humour; relations; nationhood; stand-up comedy

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