War songs and hope during the Second Chimurenga in Zimbabwe: a critical discourse analysis approachWar songs played a pivotal role during the struggle for independence in Zimbabwe. War songs provoked people's thoughts, feelings and mood to fight for the liberation of the country. Slogans, songs ...
Vincent JenjekwaLawrie Barnes
down by Rhodesian helicopters and the British South Africa Police. The SecondChimurenga, or “revolutionary struggle,” as it came to be known, would claim more than twenty thousand lives. It lasted until the Lancaster House Agreement was signed in December 1979, ushering in Zimbabwe’s ...
Two years later, seven China-trained fighters of the Zimbabwean African National Liberation Army staged a guerilla raid that was later identified as the opening battle of Zimbabwe's Second Chimurenga War, which saw the overthrow of white minority rule in the country and the ascent of the Mao-...
The executive director of the national museums and monuments of Zimbabwe, Dr Godfrey Mahachi, believes it is difficult to understand the Zimbabwean war of liberation or the Second Chimurenga without acknowledging the role Nehanda played. “Ritually, everything that happened during the...
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(Tamarkin 118). The uneasy alliance that had been briefly fostered between ZANU, now led by Robert Mugabe, and Nkomo was finally over. While the Second Chimurenga war was under way, by 1976 the nationalist liberation movement was firmly divided both militarily and politically (Tamarkin 119 ...
Where’s the Bambatha Revolt, the British war on the Pedi, the ZAR civil war with the OFS, the First Chimurenga, the Sharpeville Massacre, the Battle of Deville Wood, the Gun War, the Ngcayechibi’s War, the Malaboch War, the Griqua and the diamonds, Chinese indentured labour, the ...
Samy Ben Redjeb's Analog Africa began as an attempt to resurrect old Zimbabwean music from the dawning days of Chimurenga. This yielded great volumes chronicling the Green Arrows and the Hallelujah Chicken Run Band but political and economic problems (to put it lightly) forced the label's eye...
Among them are the Zimbabwe Women Writers authored Women of Resilience: The voices of women ex-combatants, Fay Chung's Re-living the Second Chimurenga: Memories from Zimbabwe's liberation struggle), Raftopoulos and Mlambo's Becoming Zimbabwe: A history from the pre-colonial period to 2008 and...