Category: People
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Obituary: Alex Magaisa Was an Exception to Our Public Discourse’s Toxic Rules
By Rukudzo Onai imbabwean public intellectual Dr Alex Tawanda Magaisa died on Sunday, June 5, aged 46. He suffered cardiac arrest at a hospital in Kent, United Kingdom. Magaisa was a technical advisor to the MDC-T party during the constitution-making process before working as an advisor to then Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai during the 2013…
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Vee Mukarati Meditates Mortality and Pandemic Creativity
Vital Signs, the critically acclaimed pandemic album by Zimbabwean jazz innovator Vee Mukarati, masterfully negotiates the lockdown dilemma of being relevant to your time while staying true to your art. Mukarati swings, meditates and sings on mortality, precarity and alienation on an album that is, at once, deeply personal, richly Zimbabwean and unmistakably global. The…
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Burna Boy’s “20 10 20” – Protest Music, State Violence and Power of People Platforms
Burna Boy’s critical single “20 10 20” highlights the emancipatory triad of protest art, people power movements and social media. Young African protesters are using their own platforms to undermine the coordinated abuses of state violence and censorship.
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Pan-Africanism Under Spotlight at the African Crossroads 2020 Hybrid Edition
New directions for Pan-Africanism, lockdown wellness, adaptive technologies and resistance music came under spotlight at the 2020 hybrid event of African Crossroads. The event merged immersive playlists with engaging, decolonial discussions.
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Connected States of Africa – Creatives Look Beyond National Lockdowns
The Covid-19 pandemic interrupted dynamic Pan-African movements and efforts but artists are regrouping to pursue new opportunities enabled by the internet. Digitally and financially inclusive models are the next step to empower citizens and creatives, circumventing various existing restrictions.
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Tsitsi Dangarembga Opens Up About Being Raped, Challenges “Callous” Mnangagwa
Zimbabwean soldiers allegedly raped 17 women and brutally assaulted many others during the state crackdown on protests against a 150 percent fuel price increase in January 2019. Government has denied these claims, but legendary writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga has weighed in on the side of the alleged victims, while opening up about her own…
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