Violence, Memory and Resistance in Selected Highlanders FC Supporters' Songs.
Post-independence Zimbabwe has been plagued by episodes of violence often triggered by power contestations between ZANU-PF and the opposition. The scale of violence tends to differ spatially and temporally. For the Ndebele, Gukurahundi – the yet-to-be-acknowledged genocide which left over 20,000 peo...
| Publicado en: | Critical Arts: A South-North Journal of Cultural & Media Studies Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 182 - 202 |
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