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Jean Ngoya Kidula

2020-2021 Fellow

Jean Ngoya Kidula is professor of music (ethnomusicology) at the University of Georgia.  Her Yale project, The Gospel In the Industry of Music In Eastern Africa: 1953–2002, is part of her work in music in African Christianity focused on the histories of the development of musical styles associated with Christianity, the impact and implications of musicians doing theological work, and religious musics’ transformation of political, social, and community life and rhetoric in Africa.  She will teach a related course at Yale In the spring.