Walking with the Ghosts of Zimbabwe’s Second Chimurenga
This is the English version of this podcast. You can also listen to the versions in French and Swahili [below].
Credits
Author: Bongani Kona
Script editing: Sophie Schasiepen with support from Andri Burnett
Narrators: Bongani Kona and Mamello Makhetha.
Producer / editor: Andri Burnett
Executive Producer: Sophie Schasiepen
Acknowledgments
Bongani Kona would like to thank Paolo Israel and Nicky Rousseau.
Kutembea na Mizimu ya Chimurenga ya Pili ya Zimbabwe
Hili ni toleo la Kiswahili la podikasti hii. Unaweza pia kusikiliza matoleo katika Kiingereza na Kifaransa.
Shukrani
Mwandishi : Bongani Kona
Uhariri wa hati: Sophie Schasiepen kwa usaidizi wa Andri Burnett
Tafsiri : M.W.O & M. M., Afrolingo
Msimulizi: Furaha Ruguru
Mtayarishaji / mhariri: Andri Burnett
Mtayarishaji Mtendaji: Sophie Schasiepen
Asante
Bongani Kona angependa kuwashukuru Paolo Israel na Nicky Rousseau.
References / Kusoma Zaidi
Parts of this podcast are drawn from an essay titled ‘The Descendants’ that appeared in The Baffler, Issue 55, (2021), ‘Psychopomp’.
The phrase, ‘bomb by bomb’ is taken from Derek Mahon, ‘Afterlives’, Collected Poems (The Gallery Press: County Meath, Ireland, 2008)
Flora Viet-Wild, ‘De-Silencing the Past – Challenging ‘Patriotic History’: New Books on Zimbabwean Literature’, Research in African Literatures Vol. 37, No. 3, Creative Writing in African Languages (Autumn, 2006).
Hilton Als’ review-essay, ‘Robin Coste Lewis’s Family Album’, New Yorker, 19 December 2022.
Mandy Moe Pwint Tu, ‘Histories’, Guernica, 2 October 2023.
Maria Stepanova (Translated by Sasha Dugdale), In Memory of Memory (New York: New Directions, 2021).
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (London: Faber and Faber, 1978).
Richard Werbner, Memory and the Postcolony: African Anthropology and the Critique of Power (London & New York: Zed Books, 1998).
Terence Ranger, ‘Rule by historiography: the struggle over the past in contemporary Zimbabwe’, in Versions of Zimbabwe: New Approaches to Literature and Culture, ed. by Robert Muponde and Ranka Primorac (Weaver Press: Harare, 2005), 217 – 243.
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England, 2016).
Marissa J. Fuentes' work.