What is it about?
It shows how the Afar use performative art and poetic performance to create consensus and resist tyranny. This Afar Kassow can similarly be used for peace-building and reconciliation to the troubled part of the Afar-Horn and beyond.
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Why is it important?
It brings an authentic and customary body of knowledge embodied in the Afar Kassow for the modern utility of Peace-Building
Perspectives
Writing this article was a privileged for me because the Co-author Afar scholar from Djibouti Saleh Mohammed Hassen has worked with me. His role was irreplaceable in ensuring the authenticity of texts, audio and video sources. This work has enabled both of us to go of our disciplines of into an interdisciplinary sphere from which the study has benefit a lot and hope readers will enjoy it.
Artisenal Muauz Gidey Alemu
University of Pretoria
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This page is a summary of: On the Poetics and Politics of the Afar Kassow, Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, April 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/23277408.2017.1323169.
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