TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nkurunziza,Jean Pacifique
AU  - Nganyu,Dominic Nformi
ED  - University of Burundi
TI  - The functional role of Kirundi works songs
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Bujumbura
PB  - University of Burundi, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of English Language and Litterature
KW  - BI-BuBU
KW  - Chanson rundi
KW  - Rôle
KW  - Travail
KW  - Mémoire
N1  - A thesis submetted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of the degree "Licence en Langue et Littérature Anglaises"
N2  - Résumé

This study aims at examining the message conveyed through various Rundi work songs and shows how this message contributes to shaping the behaviour of the members of the society.
Therefore, this study evolves on the premise that  literature reflects the culture of people and the culture is the basis of their society. Henceforth, the work assumes that work assumes that Rundi work songs contain moral lessons that can help to build unity and brotherbood among citizens of the society.

The moral conduct that those songs instil into Burundians functions as tools which teach, warn or correct social evils. Work songs contribute more to  increase the harvest of cultural values. Moreover, Rundi work songs as a genre of Burundi oral literature transmit the ancestral cultural value related to work vocation ac handed down from generation to generation.
In order to achieve the goal of survey , we adopted the Sociological Approach in our literary criticism
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