Janne Rantala
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Janne Rantala
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Antropólogo, PhD, vândalo, terrorista urbana Mozambique Memory, history debates & Hip Hop especially in #RapMoz (pt, en) Social scientist and methodology freak Pro Democracy and Human Rights
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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
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?
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Oh great, they're predicting snow over Gauteng next week. 😩 Well, I guess I'm buying a heater over the weekend.
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
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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
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
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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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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
Reposted by Janne Rantala
Stumbled upon this cartoon today (The Namibian, 18 December 1987) #Namibia #colonialism
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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