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‘Amandla’ review: Blood, tears and music of the struggle

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‘Amandla’s’ status as a cultural rallying point during apartheid is captured in this Sounds review, republished in Chimurenga’s book ‘Festac 77’
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Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions

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An interview with Chimurenga founder Ntone Edjabe about his latest project
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Bridging the black Atlantic in jazz

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The collaboration between Thomas Mapfumo and Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, broke new ground and should have grown cult status
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Seeking the real Chimurenga

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The author unravels a history of Zimbabwe that’s been twisted for centuries and continues today
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On our Lists this week: Freshwater, Chimurenga, Darkie Fiction and Diana Vreeland

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In between working on Friday copy, this is what the team reads, listens to and watches
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Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo’s insightful new biography

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A new book probes the life and times of Thomas Mapfumo, Zimbabwe’s hailed chimurenga music pioneer.
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Chimurenga finds its true south

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The magazine and its news offshoot were ­nurtured in a climate of ­alienation in Cape Town.
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Chronic: A late-colonial enkwayary

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Chronic ranges across the post-colonial world, exposing multiple contradictions and a bewildering range of trajectories across this landscape.
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Out of the blues

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A concert on Friday evening pays tribute to one of South Africa's most innovative jazz groups ever.
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Street focus becomes Chronic

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Literary magazine <i>Chimurenga</i>'s first newspaper will retell the xenophobia story from the inside.
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From Chimurenga to Chronic

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<i>Chimurenga</i>'s new project is an intervention into the newspaper as a vehicle of knowledge production and dissemination.
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To the streets and beyond

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The <i>Chimurenga Chronic</i> street poster campaign is a public art intervention taking place on the African continent and beyond.
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Hauntingly, quintessentially chimurenga

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For four decades Thomas Mapfumo has been at the heart of the ­evolution of a music style that put Zimbabwean sounds on the map.
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Brief union sealed by fate

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Chance brings two of Zimbabwe's leading musicians, Oliver Mtukudzi and Thomas Mapfumo, together to share their thoughts and feelings
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Storming the enclave

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<i>Chimurenga</i> is bringing musos from all over Africa to Cape Town for a month-long series of activities with music at its centre.
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