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Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · Jun 6

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".

Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · Jun 6

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.

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Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · Jun 6

"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?

Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · Jun 6

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

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André Bruwer @andrebruwer.bsky.social · Jun 5

Oh great, they're predicting snow over Gauteng next week. 😩 Well, I guess I'm buying a heater over the weekend.

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Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · Jun 5

Deus ex machina

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Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · Jun 4

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...

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 ...

doi.org

Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · Jun 4

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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

Home - HSRC PRESS

HSRC Publishing is Africa’s leading scholarly book publisher in the social sciences and humanities. As an independent publishing house and external-facing cross-cutting business unit of the HSRC, with...

hsrcpress.ac.za

Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · Jun 4

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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

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 ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · Jun 4

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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

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...

menejatieda.fi

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Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · Jun 4

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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 🏺

Azagaia: Homem Bomba part. Macross Maguguana & Jorge Domingos (guitarrista)

YouTube video by Azagaia Music

www.youtube.com

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Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · Jun 3

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. 🤗

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Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · Jun 3

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

Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · Jun 3

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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

Azagaia: Homem Bomba part. Macross Maguguana & Jorge Domingos (guitarrista)

YouTube video by Azagaia Music

www.youtube.com

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Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · Jun 3

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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).

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 ...

www.tandfonline.com

Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · Jun 3

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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...

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...

menejatieda.fi

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Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · Jun 3

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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

Azagaia: Homem Bomba part. Macross Maguguana & Jorge Domingos (guitarrista)

YouTube video by Azagaia Music

www.youtube.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · May 28

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...

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

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Kalb @historianmkalb.bsky.social · May 19

Stumbled upon this cartoon today (The Namibian, 18 December 1987) #Namibia #colonialism

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Ana Gomes @anagomes54.bsky.social · May 18

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

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 ...

expresso.pt

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Ana Gomes @anagomes54.bsky.social · May 17

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

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

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Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · May 16

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...

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Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · May 16

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...

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Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · May 15

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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Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · May 15

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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Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · May 15

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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