Janne Rantala

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".

I found out in my armchair that US commemorates 2001 events by its embassy in Managua without recognising that 911 is also a commemorative day of CIA backed assassination of Salvador Allende! Noticed after publication in a US journal that this fact was "edited away" from my memory studies paper.

"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?

This reminds me about a Finnish short story whose title could be translated "Potato is not an Item". 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.

Deus ex machina

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 ...

Thanks for the shout out.

Nevertheless, it was rather article below, which the Finnish popular media article was referring.

Although belonging to same research line than "Hidrunisa Samora" you mentioned, like a sequence article. In that you were not entirely wrong:
doi.org/10.1080/0305...

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An expanded version of the exam reading will appear in the text book:

Planet Rap: Global Hip Hop and Postcolonial Perspectives, ed. by. Prof. J. Griffith Rollefson @ucc.ie (Pretoria: HSRC Press).

hsrcpress.ac.za

#RapMoz #PostcolonialStudies #academicsky #Reach

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 ...

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Based on my journal article:
“A Sonic Biography of an After-Life: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap” @jsas-journal.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#RapMoz #PostcolonialStudies #academicsky #anthropology #PopularHistory

Mitä räpriimein kerrotaan Mosambikin historiasta? Eteläisen Afrikan siirtomaavallan vastaisen kamppailun muistoa muokkaavat monet erilaiset tahot. Kuva, jota valtapuolueet tai historiankirjat rakentavat menneisyydestä, saattaa erota suurestikin siitä...

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Brightest minds of the generation studied this piece yesterday and are now googling #RapMoz & @jsas-journal.bsky.social etc:

🎧 Theme: “What do rap rhymes reveal about Mozambique’s history?” (in Finnish)
menejatieda.fi/mita-rapriim...

#RapMoz #AcademicSky #HipHop #PublicHistory #MusicSky

YouTube video by Azagaia Music Azagaia: Homem Bomba part. Macross Maguguana & Jorge Domingos (guitarrista)

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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 🏺

You are right, I will make an English thread later. In 2024 I wrote a short popular piece to Finnish high school and college students based on my JSAS article. It was somehow identified as a good reading to select university students. They used it today and candidates are now googling the tracks. 🤗

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

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 ...

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Baseado no:
“A Sonic Biography of an After-Life. The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap”, @jsas-journal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Versão alargada sairá no: Global Hip Hop and Postcolonial Perspectives, org. J. G. Rollefson (Pretória: HSRC Press).

Mitä räpriimein kerrotaan Mosambikin historiasta? Eteläisen Afrikan siirtomaavallan vastaisen kamppailun muistoa muokkaavat monet erilaiset tahot. Kuva, jota valtapuolueet tai historiankirjat rakentavat menneisyydestä, saattaa erota suurestikin siitä...

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O artigo lido hoje por quasi 3000 candidatos:
🎧 “O que nos contam as rimas de rap sobre a história de Moçambique?”
menejatieda.fi/mita-rapriim...

YouTube video by Azagaia Music Azagaia: Homem Bomba part. Macross Maguguana & Jorge Domingos (guitarrista)

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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

Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’ Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid

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

Gaza: mais de 140 mortos em 24 horas, Costa e Guterres pedem entrada de ajuda humanitária, Israel e Hamas voltam às negociações no Catar <p>ONU alerta para “limpeza étnica” no enclave, após intensos ataques no último dia, que provocam mais de 140 mortos. António Costa diz-se “chocado” com as notícias que chegam da Palestina e Guterres ...

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

Prémio Nelson Mandela atribuído a advogado de Venâncio Mondlane assassinado em Outubro Com escolha de Elvino Dias, a ProPública envia “mensagem de solidariedade” aos advogados moçambicanos” e chama a atenção para um país com registo “lamentável” de “desrespeito pelos direitos humanos”.

www.publico.pt/2025/05/17/m...

P.S.

Q & A:

Why Ibrahim Tráore meme has a "fake" label?

While I shared this with the original Captain Africa aKa Inspector Desusado from Chimoio, Moz, he said that the real Captain Africa is me!

www.youtube.com/@inspectorde...

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...

For sure some will dismiss this as a Western effort to undermine Burkina Faso's hero preferring to trust much larger quantity of pro-Russian troll narrative. But despite of inherited skin colour, my argument comes from African and decolonial perspectives. Hope it will be jugded fairly.

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In sum: Despite of legitimate anti-western sentiments, which Ibrahim Traóre embodies, he is not Pan-africanist hero, but one more puppet of European colonialism, maintaining the misery within the continent. Wearing to anti-imperialist rhetorics doesn't make Russian colonialism any better.

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Unfortunately, Ibrahim Tráore's image is promoting desire for military coups among disillusioned African youth rather than respect of human life, local benefit and civil rights. Here in Mozambique this desire recently demoralised in its part a promising national revolt after rigged elections.

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Soft Power and Disinformation: The Strategic Role of Media in Wagner’s Expansion in Africa – PRIO Blogs After its first steps on the African continent in Libya in 2017, the Wagner Group has been deployed in Sudan, Mozambique, Madagascar, the Central African Republic, and at the end of 2021 in Mali. This...

Russian imperialism, similarly to other European and US imperialism still requires African raw materials, and markets for its own oil and gas. In genuinely imperialist manner Russia is indeed very thirsty of raw materials: gold, uranium, strategic minerals...

blogs.prio.org/2023/03/soft...

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Inside the effort to market Russia and Putin to Africans The Africa Initiative is part of an opaque network of groups that Western officials and analysts say the Kremlin uses to spread Russian influence in Africa.

But what is the reason and who benefits all this?

Russia's African operations are linked to its ambition of regional empire in Eurasia and subsequent invasion to its neighbouring countries, most remarkably to Ukraine, but not only.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

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Russia Is Riding an Anti-Colonial Wave Across Africa Modern authoritarian regimes exploit anti-colonial rhetoric to advance their own geopolitical agendas and undermine Western influence. Unlike the genuine anti-colonial movements of the Cold War, today...

The main actor of the campaign is one of the signatories of Berlin congress and evidently Europe´s most racist country, Russia, which pays in cash to major local producers.

That´s why Traóre is often promoted alongside another dictator, Putin.

www.rand.org/pubs/comment...

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This is misappropriation of 1. legitimate desire for decolonisation, 2. frustration to French neocolonialism, arrogance, and 3. indifference of the Western media to the Global South and its people, and it isn't fundamentally motivated by African benefit, but European imperialism. I show you how.
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Actors such as Wagner, Africa Initiative and Russian Today has painted Tráore as African superhero, a leader of new anti-imperialism and present-day Thomas Sankara.

However, despite of wearing red beret, the similarities to Thomas Sankara's anti-imperialism are in best case superficial.

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