Entangled memories: Nehanda statue,
            <i>Gukurahundi</i>
            plaques and the politics of memory in Zimbabwe

Ndlovu, Mphathisi; Tshuma, Andile B.

doi:10.1080/14725843.2022.2114872

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“…Research that maps places and spatiality into identities of citizens and vice versa is negligible within the Zimbabwean landscape. Much of the extant research has dedicated vast energy to engaging: music and conflict (Muhwati, Charamba and Tembo 2018); music and hegemony (Dhlamini 2017;Ncube and Siziba 2017); music and protest (Chiweshe and Bhatasara 2013;Kufakurinani, Nyakudya and Chinouriri 2017); music and Gukurahundi (Maedza 2017;Ndlovu 2018); and popular songs in Zimbabwe's colonial, liberation and post-independence periods (Musiyiwa 2013;Vambe 2000). Makwenda (2005) comes closest to what we envisage to undertake through the current study in how she documents township music and examines how it has contributed to post-independence Zimbabwean cultural identities.…”

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Mapping Places and Identities through Contemporary Bulawayo Popular Song Texts

Sibanda

Dhlamini

2021

Muziki

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In this article, the authors examine the symbiotic relationship that exists between places and identities in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, through contemporary song texts. They borrow Julia Kristeva's concept of intertextuality to trace the sources of spatial textual referents embedded in song texts and examine the ways in which they inform the emergence and consolidation of identities. Through analysing selected song texts from the late Beatar Mangethe, Khuxxman and Lovemore "Majaivana" Tshuma, the authors underscore the spatial senses in which these selected song texts define and shape identities and class distinctions in Bulawayo's townships. Finally, they describe the identities of characters who are sketched into the places that Mangethe, Khuxxman and Majaivana sing about and from, thereby highlighting a symbiotic dialogue between people and places in Bulawayo.

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