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

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Mourning the Dead Podcast

Mourning the Dead

Connecting histories of people, places, and remains

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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Kutembea na Mizimu ya Chimurenga ya Pili ya Zimbabwe

Katika kipindi hiki, Bongani Kona anatembelea tena waasi wa vijijini ili kukomboa nchi yake ya Zimbabwe kutoka kwa utawala wa wazungu katika miaka hii ya 1970. Kona anasema kuwa jinsi maadhimisho ya waliouawa kutokana na vita hivi yanavyofanywa na serikali ya baada ya ukoloni, ni suala...

Published 05/16/24

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

Published 05/16/24

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...

Published 05/16/24

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