Chitekete and Other Love Songs

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Shadreck Chirikure draws our attention to the Shona proverb, passed on generation to generation, and popularised and broadcast by Oliver Mtukudzi on the track Rirongere, ‚kare haagari ari kare‘ (the past does not remain the same) resonating on the same frequency when Christina Sharpe writes of ‘the wake’ where, ‚…the past that is not past reappears, always, to rupture the present.‘ In both, there is an understanding of an inherent instability in the conception of Black time, where chiro nechiro chinenguva yacho (everything has its time), now and again. ‚Chitekete and Other Love Songs‘, a short journey between three time signatures across Zimbabwe, Zambia and the DRC, investigates this condition through three genres of music – Sungura, Sembene and Zamrock – examining their sonic, spatial and material qualities as conduits of time travel and vehicles of ‘rupture’ (Sharpe).

Featuring the following YouTube footage:

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LEORNARD DEMBO LIVE 1992
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