The Swahili song Kijiti, whose text was composed by
the famous taarab artist Siti binti Saad (1898-1950) to
express her anger about the abuses committed
against women that often remained unpunished. It is
performed by the udi player Said Nassor and the old
taarab singer Bi Kidude.The Verba Africana series publishes video recording of African verbal arts on
CDRom's, DVD’s and the Internet. This series responds to the increasing need for
new electronic tools that integrate the written and audio-visual materials for
research, teaching and learning of African languages and oral literatures. The video
recording of oral genres, such as poems, songs and tales, is integrated into the
presentation of relevant aspects (language, form, content, performance, literary,
social and historical context). The videos and the accompanying material (short
information and full articles) allow researchers and the interested public to
approach oral literary productions as ‘total event’.NWO, The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Researc
