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The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe, 2000–2020: Bones, Rumours and Spirits

Author: Joost Fontein

Publisher: Uj Press

Released: 21 June 2023

ISBN: 9781776434114

In 1898, just before she was hanged for rebelling against colonial rule, Charwe Nyakasikana, spirit medium of the legendary ancestor Ambuya Nehanda, famously prophesised that ‘my bones will rise again’. A century later bones, bodies and human remains have come to occupy an increasingly complex place in Zimbabwe’s postcolonial milieu. From ancestral ‘bones’ rising again in the struggle for independence, and later land, to resurfacing bones of unsettled war dead; a...

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