A Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap.
This article focuses on two interlinked trends in public memory in Mozambique: the rise of alternative heroes and parallel invocations of seemingly incompatible heroes, particularly as they relate to invocations of Frelimo's ousted Vice President, Uria Simango, in Mozambican rap. The empirical mater...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 153 - 178 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2024
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