Janne Rantala
@jannerantala10.bsky.social
Antropólogo, PhD, vândalo, terrorista urbana
Mozambique
Memory, history debates & Hip Hop especially in #RapMoz (pt, en)
Social scientist and methodology freak
Pro Democracy and Human Rights
Mozambique
Memory, history debates & Hip Hop especially in #RapMoz (pt, en)
Social scientist and methodology freak
Pro Democracy and Human Rights
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 & 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...
May 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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 & 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...
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...
May 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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...
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...
What is behind idolisation of a military dictator of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Tráore, and promotion of his alleged achievements?
Is he really a contemporary anti-imperialist hero?
Who organises the campaign and benefits from it?
A thread 1/9
Is he really a contemporary anti-imperialist hero?
Who organises the campaign and benefits from it?
A thread 1/9
May 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
What is behind idolisation of a military dictator of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Tráore, and promotion of his alleged achievements?
Is he really a contemporary anti-imperialist hero?
Who organises the campaign and benefits from it?
A thread 1/9
Is he really a contemporary anti-imperialist hero?
Who organises the campaign and benefits from it?
A thread 1/9
Delighted to share the first article in my series on Hip Hop and the current conjuncture in Mozambique:
'To Brother Azagaia: A Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and Beyond'
Just published in Journal of Popular Music Studies (UC Press).
🔗 online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...
'To Brother Azagaia: A Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and Beyond'
Just published in Journal of Popular Music Studies (UC Press).
🔗 online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...
April 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Delighted to share the first article in my series on Hip Hop and the current conjuncture in Mozambique:
'To Brother Azagaia: A Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and Beyond'
Just published in Journal of Popular Music Studies (UC Press).
🔗 online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...
'To Brother Azagaia: A Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and Beyond'
Just published in Journal of Popular Music Studies (UC Press).
🔗 online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...
Meus votos do Dia Internacional do Hip Hop Moçambicano, 9 de Março com esta carta que escrevi logo depois o dia trágico do falecimento do mano Azagaia e que foi publicada há um ano no primeiro aniversário da morte dele. A foto é da minha autoria, 2012 www.iese.ac.mz/ideias-no-15... 1/2
March 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Meus votos do Dia Internacional do Hip Hop Moçambicano, 9 de Março com esta carta que escrevi logo depois o dia trágico do falecimento do mano Azagaia e que foi publicada há um ano no primeiro aniversário da morte dele. A foto é da minha autoria, 2012 www.iese.ac.mz/ideias-no-15... 1/2
O comunicado pelo Gabinete do Presidente Eleito pelo Povo sobre os disparos contra a comitiva do Presidente Venancio Mondlane hoje à tarde e a questão do paradeiro do presidente.
March 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
O comunicado pelo Gabinete do Presidente Eleito pelo Povo sobre os disparos contra a comitiva do Presidente Venancio Mondlane hoje à tarde e a questão do paradeiro do presidente.
The police shot live ammunion and tear gas against "the people's president" Venancio Mondlane and his team this afternoon (ca. 13:15) in Maputo's outskirts.
This is just days after "the Frelimo's President" Daniel Chapo had promised to shed blood to finish the demonstrations.
This is just days after "the Frelimo's President" Daniel Chapo had promised to shed blood to finish the demonstrations.
March 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The police shot live ammunion and tear gas against "the people's president" Venancio Mondlane and his team this afternoon (ca. 13:15) in Maputo's outskirts.
This is just days after "the Frelimo's President" Daniel Chapo had promised to shed blood to finish the demonstrations.
This is just days after "the Frelimo's President" Daniel Chapo had promised to shed blood to finish the demonstrations.
-Manifestação é crime?
-Não!
-Então, todas as sextas-feiras às 15h45 vamos cantar o hino nacional e vamos levar os cartazes para libertar os nossos irmãos.
– Sua excelençia o presidente Venâncio Mondlane ("presidente do povo") na Sextafeira 14 de Fevereiro, Xipamanine, Maputo, Moçambique.
-Não!
-Então, todas as sextas-feiras às 15h45 vamos cantar o hino nacional e vamos levar os cartazes para libertar os nossos irmãos.
– Sua excelençia o presidente Venâncio Mondlane ("presidente do povo") na Sextafeira 14 de Fevereiro, Xipamanine, Maputo, Moçambique.
February 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
-Manifestação é crime?
-Não!
-Então, todas as sextas-feiras às 15h45 vamos cantar o hino nacional e vamos levar os cartazes para libertar os nossos irmãos.
– Sua excelençia o presidente Venâncio Mondlane ("presidente do povo") na Sextafeira 14 de Fevereiro, Xipamanine, Maputo, Moçambique.
-Não!
-Então, todas as sextas-feiras às 15h45 vamos cantar o hino nacional e vamos levar os cartazes para libertar os nossos irmãos.
– Sua excelençia o presidente Venâncio Mondlane ("presidente do povo") na Sextafeira 14 de Fevereiro, Xipamanine, Maputo, Moçambique.
Estou com a pena de jornalistas moçambicanos.
Adivinhem: qual era o evento de ontem que foi transmitido através todos os telejornais e com a extensissima duração (como se fosse a notícia mais importante do dia)?
P.s. Não foi o que envolveu dezenas milhares municípes.
Adivinhem: qual era o evento de ontem que foi transmitido através todos os telejornais e com a extensissima duração (como se fosse a notícia mais importante do dia)?
P.s. Não foi o que envolveu dezenas milhares municípes.
February 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Estou com a pena de jornalistas moçambicanos.
Adivinhem: qual era o evento de ontem que foi transmitido através todos os telejornais e com a extensissima duração (como se fosse a notícia mais importante do dia)?
P.s. Não foi o que envolveu dezenas milhares municípes.
Adivinhem: qual era o evento de ontem que foi transmitido através todos os telejornais e com a extensissima duração (como se fosse a notícia mais importante do dia)?
P.s. Não foi o que envolveu dezenas milhares municípes.
Há 15 minutos "o presidente do povo" Venancio Mondlane estava a sair de Xipamanine no seu turne em Maputo de fortalecer os decretos presidenciais.
February 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Há 15 minutos "o presidente do povo" Venancio Mondlane estava a sair de Xipamanine no seu turne em Maputo de fortalecer os decretos presidenciais.
Votos revolucionários do São Valentim de Maputo www.facebook.com/venamondlane...
February 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Votos revolucionários do São Valentim de Maputo www.facebook.com/venamondlane...
I think the momentum is here.
"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountain tops of our desires."
— Nelson Mandela, 1953 —
#Migration
"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountain tops of our desires."
— Nelson Mandela, 1953 —
#Migration
January 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I think the momentum is here.
"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountain tops of our desires."
— Nelson Mandela, 1953 —
#Migration
"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountain tops of our desires."
— Nelson Mandela, 1953 —
#Migration
A grande entrevista hoje também no jornal independente Canal de Moçambique. 2/3
January 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
A grande entrevista hoje também no jornal independente Canal de Moçambique. 2/3
After many re-readings and re-writings it is still a great pleasure to read a physical copy of the @jsas-journal.bsky.social , which I contributed with
“A Sonic biography of an After-Life. The expelled liberation leader Uria Simango in Mozambican rap”
OA: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“A Sonic biography of an After-Life. The expelled liberation leader Uria Simango in Mozambican rap”
OA: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
After many re-readings and re-writings it is still a great pleasure to read a physical copy of the @jsas-journal.bsky.social , which I contributed with
“A Sonic biography of an After-Life. The expelled liberation leader Uria Simango in Mozambican rap”
OA: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“A Sonic biography of an After-Life. The expelled liberation leader Uria Simango in Mozambican rap”
OA: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....