Here is the link to the second article about the revolution of Hip Hop generation in Mozambique: bsky.app/profile/jann...
20.12.2025 21:01
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Here is the link to the second article about the revolution of Hip Hop generation in Mozambique: bsky.app/profile/jann...
A visual essay about protests 2023-2025 following rapper Azagaia´s death @safundi.bsky.social
“Can’t keep streaming folks, I’m dying”: witnessing a layered revolt in Mozambique
Free copies available in www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YT7HR...
Found out in my armchair that US's Managua embassy commemorates 2001 events without recognising that 911 is also a commemorative day of CIA backed assassination of Salvador Allende! Noticed after publication of my memory paper in a US journal that this important 3rd eye shit was "edited away".
I found out in my armchair that US commemorates 2001 events by its embassy in Managua without recognising that 911 is also a commemorative day of CIA backed assassination of Salvador Allende! Noticed after publication in a US journal that this fact was "edited away" from my memory studies paper.
"Building bananas" reminds me about a Finnish short story whose title could be translated "Potato is not an Item" where man tries to build potatoes in his workshop. Anyone remembers an author?
This reminds me about a Finnish short story whose title could be translated "Potato is not an Item". Anyone remembers an author?
Oh great, they're predicting snow over Gauteng next week. 😩 Well, I guess I'm buying a heater over the weekend.
Deus ex machina
Thanks for the shout out.
Nevertheless, it was rather article below, which the Finnish popular media article was referring.
Although belonging to same research line than "Hidrunisa Samora" you mentioned, like a sequence article. In that you were not entirely wrong:
doi.org/10.1080/0305...
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An expanded version of the exam reading will appear in the text book:
Planet Rap: Global Hip Hop and Postcolonial Perspectives, ed. by. Prof. J. Griffith Rollefson @ucc.ie (Pretoria: HSRC Press).
hsrcpress.ac.za
#RapMoz #PostcolonialStudies #academicsky #Reach
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Based on my journal article:
“A Sonic Biography of an After-Life: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap” @jsas-journal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#RapMoz #PostcolonialStudies #academicsky #anthropology #PopularHistory
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Brightest minds of the generation studied this piece yesterday and are now googling #RapMoz & @jsas-journal.bsky.social etc:
🎧 Theme: “What do rap rhymes reveal about Mozambique’s history?” (in Finnish)
menejatieda.fi/mita-rapriim...
#RapMoz #AcademicSky #HipHop #PublicHistory #MusicSky
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A bit of news that makes me happy: my article about Mozambican rap #RapMoz 🇲🇿 was included in Finland’s 🇫🇮 1st nation-wide university entrance exam, reaching thousands.
📻 The supporting playlist:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLZC...
#HipHop #Anthropology #History #Memorypolitics #MusicSky 🏺
You are right, I will make an English thread later. In 2024 I wrote a short popular piece to Finnish high school and college students based on my JSAS article. It was somehow identified as a good reading to select university students. They used it today and candidates are now googling the tracks. 🤗
Uma notícia que me deixa feliz: um artigo que escrevi sobre o rap moçambicano #rapmoz foi usado num exame nacional de acesso ao ensino superior na Finlândia, destinado a milhares de estudantes.
📚 Tema: o que nos contam as rimas de rap sobre a história de Moçambique?
Fio, 3 partes.
#academicsky
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Baseado no:
“A Sonic Biography of an After-Life. The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap”, @jsas-journal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Versão alargada sairá no: Global Hip Hop and Postcolonial Perspectives, org. J. G. Rollefson (Pretória: HSRC Press).
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O artigo lido hoje por quasi 3000 candidatos:
🎧 “O que nos contam as rimas de rap sobre a história de Moçambique?”
menejatieda.fi/mita-rapriim...
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As notícias sobre internacionalização do #Rapmoz: Com o fim do sigilo, já posso dizer: o rap moçambicano entrou no exame nacional de acesso ao ensino superior na Finlândia 🇫🇮
📻 Playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLZC...
#HipHopEducação #HistóriaPopular
Our letter condemning the genocide in #Gaza and calling for an immediate ceasefire. A great crime is being committed, and we cannot stand by.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Stumbled upon this cartoon today (The Namibian, 18 December 1987) #Namibia #colonialism
#Israel, Estado terrorista e genocida.
expresso.pt/internaciona...
P.S.
Q & A:
Why Ibrahim Tráore meme has a "fake" label?
While I shared this with the original Captain Africa aKa Inspector Desusado from Chimoio, Moz, he said that the real Captain Africa is me!
www.youtube.com/@inspectorde...
Q: Why my 9 part thread about pro-Putin propaganda manufacturing about Ibrahim Traóre has a "fake" label?
A: When I shared these thoughts with the original Captain Africa aKa Inspector Desusado from Chimoio, Moz, he said that the real Captain Africa is me!
www.youtube.com/@inspectorde...
For sure some will dismiss this as a Western effort to undermine Burkina Faso's hero preferring to trust much larger quantity of pro-Russian troll narrative. But despite of inherited skin colour, my argument comes from African and decolonial perspectives. Hope it will be jugded fairly.
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In sum: Despite of legitimate anti-western sentiments, which Ibrahim Traóre embodies, he is not Pan-africanist hero, but one more puppet of European colonialism, maintaining the misery within the continent. Wearing to anti-imperialist rhetorics doesn't make Russian colonialism any better.
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Unfortunately, Ibrahim Tráore's image is promoting desire for military coups among disillusioned African youth rather than respect of human life, local benefit and civil rights. Here in Mozambique this desire recently demoralised in its part a promising national revolt after rigged elections.
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Russian imperialism, similarly to other European and US imperialism still requires African raw materials, and markets for its own oil and gas. In genuinely imperialist manner Russia is indeed very thirsty of raw materials: gold, uranium, strategic minerals...
blogs.prio.org/2023/03/soft...
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But what is the reason and who benefits all this?
Russia's African operations are linked to its ambition of regional empire in Eurasia and subsequent invasion to its neighbouring countries, most remarkably to Ukraine, but not only.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
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The main actor of the campaign is one of the signatories of Berlin congress and evidently Europe´s most racist country, Russia, which pays in cash to major local producers.
That´s why Traóre is often promoted alongside another dictator, Putin.
www.rand.org/pubs/comment...
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