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.

This reminds me about a Finnish short story whose title could be translated "Potato is not an Item". Anyone remembers an author?

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

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. 🤗

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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...

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...

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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