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Mueda massacre: the musical archive
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
As in Pidjiguiti in Guiné-Bissau or Baixa de Cassanje in Angola, the massacre that occurred in
the northern Mozambican town of Mueda on 16 June 1960 has been inscribed in the
nationalist narrative as the breaking point ...
The political sublime: reading Kok Nam, Mozambican photographer (1939-2012)
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
Kok Nam began his photographic career at Studio Focus in Lourenço Marques in the 1950s, graduated to the newspaper Notícias and joined Tempo magazine in the early 1970s. Most recently he worked at the journal Savana as a ...
Utopia Live: Singing the Mozambican struggle for national liberation
(History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2009)
This article engages a historical reconstruction of the formation of Makonde
revolutionary singing in the process of the Mozambican liberation struggle. The
history of ʻUtopia liveʼ is here entrusted to wartime genres, ...
Of borders and crossings: The lives of a healer in northern Mozambique
(Journal of Southern African Studies, 2022)
Background: Daria Trentini’s book is a narrative exploration of the life and practice of a healer in the northern Mozambican city of Nampula. Ansha, the titular protagonist, was a Makonde migrant from the province of Cabo ...