Month: January 2018
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Reply to “The Case for Colonialism”
Click or not: Reply to “The Case for Colonialism”Reply to “The Case for Colonialism” My kin didn’t go to your cities because they were starstruck by towering lights, wanted to read your Dickens or run your municipal errands. They went there because you took their farms, stole their cattle, raped their women, drove them to dry reserves and siphoned their wealth to the… …
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Thomas Mapfumo, Mbira Masters and Rhodesian Gatekeepers
Click or not: Thomas Mapfumo, Mbira Masters and Rhodesian GatekeepersThomas Mapfumo, Mbira Masters and Rhodesian Gatekeepers Mbira poetics in the moonshine, mid-century township culture, chimurenga renaissance, gospel, jit, sungura and dancehall are all genealogies of the Zimbabwean spirit. Today, the mbira may assure the country a proud category in world music but to get there, it had to survive repression by Rhodesian gatekeepers. Zimbabwe’s… …