Walking with the Ghosts of Zimbabwe’s Second Chimurenga

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Mourning the Dead: Connecting histories of people, places, and remains

Mourning the Dead Podcast

10 episodes

3 days ago

This podcast brings together different histories connected to the mortal remains of people and their violent dislocation during or in the aftermath of colonial rule; their meaning for the remembrance of slavery; their role in anticolonial and postcolonial struggles, memory politics, the undoing of scientific racism and the work of restitution. The podcast focuses on histories connected to the African continent. It is the intent of this collection of histories, to present them as part of the work of mourning – a mourning that can initiate and strengthen transformation in the present.

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Walking with the Ghosts of Zimbabwe’s Second Chimurenga

Mourning the Dead: Connecting histories of people, places, and remains

21 minutes 51 seconds

1 year ago

Walking with the Ghosts of Zimbabwe’s Second Chimurenga

In this episode, Bongani Kona revisits the largely rural insurgency to liberate his homeland of Zimbabwe from white rule in this 1970s. How the slain from this war are commemorated by the postcolonial state, Kona argues, is a matter that affects the well-being of both the living and the dead.

This is the English version of this podcast. You can also listen to the versions in French and Swahili.

Credits
Author: Bongani Kona
Script editing: Sophie Schasiepen with support from Andri Burnett
Narrators: Bongani Kona and Mamello Makhetha
Producer / editor: Andri Burnett
Executive Producer: Sophie Schasiepen

Acknowledgments
Bongani Kona would like to thank Paolo Israel and Nicky Rousseau.

Further Reading

References included works by Hilton Als, Marissa J. Fuentes, Milan Kundera, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Derek Mahon, Mandy Moe Pwint Tu, Terence Ranger, Maria Stepanova, Flora Viet-Wild, Richard Werbner. Please find the full references listed here.

Funding

The Mourning the Dead podcast was produced as part of the contribution by the University of the Western Cape to the research project “Reconnecting 'Objects': Epistemic Plurality and Transformative Practices in and beyond Museums”, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.