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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

my favourite song by Bill Evans (Miles D.'s favourite pianist, by the way)

dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In which i review South African writer Imraan Coovadia's latest novel, An Enemy of the State percyzvomuya.substack.com/publish/post...

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The elder Thomas Mapfumo is in the news. He will turn 81 next week on 22 July. This essay by his cousin, the poet Musa Zimunya, explains why Mapfumo is important to Zimbabwe's being and music. percyzvomuya.substack.com/p/thomas-taf...

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Thomas “Tafirenyika” Mapfumo and the Zimbabwean music revolution

Musaemura B.

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Over there on the When Three Sevens Clash substack, Geraldine Mukumbi remembers her grandfather in a moving piece titled "Musakanene" percyzvomuya.substack.com/p/musakanene

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I wrote an extended review of a book by Brooks Marmon about a forgotten Zimbabwean nationalist, Edson Sithole, who was abducted by Rhodesia’s secret police together with his assistant, Miriam Mhlanga in 1975. The two were never seen again. percyzvomuya.substack.com/p/when-three...

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When Three Sevens Clash

Words. Sounds. And the mess in between.

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Such treasonous thoughts. What do you have against Lockheed?

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

hmm. At my high school smoking was banned but we smoked all the same...

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

"Pep In Your Step and Annie Field have balked at the water, and Red Army is out in front. Many will ask questions about whether or not this is fair. They’ve worked on jumping more than any other horse, and are now the best at jumping." 🙌 Today's blog is a collectable. Do an NFT already!

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

White text on black background? like really.

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

it's a vibes operation there by Forest...

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

thing is, pharmacist is not going to phone doctor when they are not sure about what's written, and there, accidents are bound to happen.

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

happy happy to my auntie. mwah.😍 Akule akokobe. May she live to be older than uncle Bob, without the attendant problems.

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

"I’m just trying to be helpful,” he said again as the packed audience began to disperse. Hmm. If this is him being helpful, I dare say Starmer wouldn’t want to encounter him when he’s being difficult." 😍 *likes*

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

it rained in Jwanesurg yesterday and today. Makubebjalo Tixo. Abeg.

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

was chatting to an elder, a Zimbabwean nationalist now based in the "diaspora", who shall remain nameless; his option when the shit hits the fan where he is based is Curacao. i asked why C., it seems randomly precise. They speak English, there are no hurricanes, it's European but not really... 🤔😂

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

sekuru Gordon argued that people were being killed by witchcraft but those responsible are escaping justice because if you accuse them of being witches/ wizards, they will use the law against you. So we have the untenable situation where the victims are doubly punished, by the law and by the witches

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

i think the problem with these colonial witchcraft laws is that they insist there is no witchcraft, but we all know there is witchcraft. Professor Gordon Chavunduka's project was how to use african means of identifying witchcraft and incorporate them into western legal systems imposed on us.

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Very interesting piece, Phillippe. But how come football in France had never been organised in this way before?

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

it's friday, ntombi yakithi. please dream up the lotto millions. abeg!

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

You can never rule out fate & randomness, but you can't but wonder whether players like Bukayo were overloaded, when their bodies were still not fully dvped, and now they are paying the price. Someone who appeared unbreakable is suffering repeated stress injuries can't just be reduced to chance.

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

as John crace put it in his column, " The organisers of the Reform party conference this weekend have banned some journalists from attending. Clearly you can have too much of a good thing."

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

same here. The spontaneity of old is lost and the quants have taken over.

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Football has changed a lot since the 1990s. In this story Marcel Desailly said he wouldn't command a place as a defensive midfielder in today's game. Football has become "faster" and players have deeper "understanding of tactics" www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Marcel Desailly: ‘I don’t know if I was a star, but I’m now a legend’

The World Cup winner shows Jonathan Liew that he has a firm grip on the game’s pulse and praises those players taking on the right in his native France

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

i have been meaning to read "The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X" by Les Payne & daughter Tamara. It took him ONLY 30 yrs to finish 🤔😉. He died before he could do it (Tamara used to accompany him when he interviewed peepo). It's sitting on my shelf; I should have a go at it this year.

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Am quite a superstitious man, but is it only me seeing a pattern in an unscheduled interview with Ian Wright (formerly of Palace) in the same week in which Arsenal signs Eze ...?

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

we are 21 AGAIN. Happy happy, friendo. May it be a nice year full of nice things like health, success, and what not.

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

1 israeli life is equal to 50 palestinians. reminds me of life in rhodesia. 250k whites lording over 6m blacks. ratio 1 white is equal 24 blacks. #MathematicalRacism.

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dambakushamba.bsky.social @dambakushamba.bsky.social · 08/07/2025