A visual essay about protests 2023-2025 following rapper Azagaia´s death @safundi.bsky.social “Can’t keep streaming folks, I’m dying”: witnessing a layered revolt in Mozambique Free copies available in www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YT7HR...

Found out in my armchair that US's Managua embassy commemorates 2001 events without recognising that 911 is also a commemorative day of CIA backed assassination of Salvador Allende! Noticed after publication of my memory paper in a US journal that this important 3rd eye shit was "edited away".

"Building bananas" reminds me about a Finnish short story whose title could be translated "Potato is not an Item" where man tries to build potatoes in his workshop. Anyone remembers an author?

Oh great, they're predicting snow over Gauteng next week. 😩 Well, I guess I'm buying a heater over the weekend.

🧵1/4 A bit of news that makes me happy: my article about Mozambican rap #RapMoz 🇲🇿 was included in Finland’s 🇫🇮 1st nation-wide university entrance exam, reaching thousands. 📻 The supporting playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLZC... #HipHop #Anthropology #History #Memorypolitics #MusicSky 🏺

Uma notícia que me deixa feliz: um artigo que escrevi sobre o rap moçambicano #rapmoz foi usado num exame nacional de acesso ao ensino superior na Finlândia, destinado a milhares de estudantes. 📚 Tema: o que nos contam as rimas de rap sobre a história de Moçambique? Fio, 3 partes. #academicsky

1/3 As notícias sobre internacionalização do #Rapmoz: Com o fim do sigilo, já posso dizer: o rap moçambicano entrou no exame nacional de acesso ao ensino superior na Finlândia 🇫🇮 📻 Playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLZC... #HipHopEducação #HistóriaPopular

Our letter condemning the genocide in #Gaza and calling for an immediate ceasefire. A great crime is being committed, and we cannot stand by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Stumbled upon this cartoon today (The Namibian, 18 December 1987) #Namibia #colonialism

#Israel, Estado terrorista e genocida. expresso.pt/internaciona...

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...

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

1/2 Hipótese: A idolização deste ditator é o resultado da fabricação da disinformação motivada pela ambição russa de um império regional na Eurásia, para o qual necessita de matérias-primas africanas e de mercados para seus recursos naturais.

Dear brothers in law in Joni. White Afrikaaner “refugees” in the USA... Are you going to take them back to RSA after their prodigal son months oversees?

Delighted to share the first article in my series on Hip Hop and the current revolt in Mozambique: Just published in JPMS,UC Press. 🔗 online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article... @burrata.bsky.social @ehphd.bsky.social @ericdharvey.com @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social @chuckdpe.bsky.social @isasbigini.bsky.social

Great issue, not only because there are my fieldnotes about rapper Azagaia's legacy in on-going uprising in Mozambique and beyond. 'To Brother Azagaia: A Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and Beyond' Just published in JPMS (UC Press). 🔗 online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...

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" Uma novidade que recebi hoje diretamente de West Coast: trata-se da minha publicação em Journal of Popular Music Studies que iniçia um série sobre o Hip Hop e a conjunctura actual em Moz: online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...

O playlist para 9/3 é do artigo que trata a morte do Azagaia (2023) como um evento histórico que iniciou a onda dos protestos que posteriormente, sobretudo depois dos assassinatos do Elvino Dias *e *Paulo Guambe, 19/10/2024, transformou-se em revolta popular que testemunhamos neste quotidiano.

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

Maputo. Caravana de Venâncio Mondlane atingida a tiro, há 16 feridos, incluindo crianças e elemento da equipa do político

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.

CFP: Public History in an Age of Anxiety, QUB, 9-11 Sept. 2025

Last night we were lit up in rainbow colours to mark #LGBTQHistoryMonth. 🌈🌈🌈 We're proud to support the many #LGBTQ staff and students that make Queen's such a great place to study and work and we recognise the historic wins of this community that have helped make our campus the place it is today.

Below there are links to three separated playlists that altogether contain over 50 rap tracks, which, listened in their wider context, greatly help to understand the current popular revolt in Mozambique. Very good to listen too. A thread in Portuguese, 3 parts:

-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.

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.

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...

VM7 agora ao vivo em arredores de Maputo www.facebook.com/venamondlane...

O versão do Azagaia sobre a detenção em 2011 youtu.be/S15dcz91KeY?...

Probably these two were from here from nowaday's Maputo. Waiting forward to read this.

Desde Setembro moçambicanos estão a esperar a clarificação o que aconteçeu para a estátua querida do Eduardo Mondlane na calada da noite e porque substituiam a com a estatua gigante da baixa qualidade estética. mznews.co.mz/governo-falh...

Tiravam intencionalmente ou não aspas de palavra "posse", mas pessoalmente penso que o people exagera maningue com este scandalinho porque está supersensível sobre Azagaia. 1/2

Polémica Envolvendo O Livro Da Língua Portuguesa E O Renomado Músico Azagaia #Azagaia #Polêmica #Cultura #Música #Drogas

Nesta hora no Sabado tenho sempre dificuldades de abundançia porque o Clássico Hip Hop Time de Rádio Cidade (RM) de Maputo (14h-16h) mytuner-radio.com/pt/radio/cid... e Puro Hip Hop de Rádio Pax, de Beira (15h-17h), radiopax.org/radio-online/ estão sobrepostos. #RapMoz

Especially accurate journalist account of the on-going revolt in Mozambique in @theguardian.com by Estevão Chavisso www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

O live e o segundo decreto presidencial do Venâncio Mondlane amplamente designado em Moçambique como o "presidente do povo": www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nrq... 1/3

The Human Rights Commission of the Mozambican Bar Association (CDH-OAM) has denounced brutal police repression against citizens involved in protests contesting Mozambique’s election results, stating that killings, torture, and enforced disappearances have taken place. moztimes.com/en/blog/bar-...

Quite a recommendable column was not filtered because it is a pic.

Anthropologist, sociologist, historian, Hip Hop and memory scholar, politologist? Everything, which is solid, melts, not only because of capitalism, but also engagement with communities can melt us. I am confident with my research, but feel hard to stick any of these disciplinary identities.

The President Mondlane has actually visited also other strategically situated places, e.g. Mbobole further north by the national main road, and the Ressano-Garçia border post. Otherwise worth to read.

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....

"She might as well have presented a report to the lions in Gorongosa National Park on how they could become vegan" by @zitamar.bsky.social 😂

Lichile ☀️

“For those of us directly impacted by the enduring legacies of genocide, Musk’s rhetoric is not an exercise in humour – it is a perpetuation of existential threats that jeopardise the integrity of global commitments to justice and human rights". www.namibiansun.com/government/m...

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