Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Here is the link to the second article about the revolution of Hip Hop generation in Mozambique: bsky.app/profile/jann... 000
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 03/12/2025A visual essay about protests 2023-2025 following rapper Azagaia´s death @safundi.bsky.social “Can’t keep streaming folks, I’m dying”: witnessing a layered revolt in Mozambique Free copies available in www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YT7HR...tandfonline.com“Can’t keep streaming folks, I’m dying”: witnessing a layered revolt in MozambiqueThis visual essay takes a haptic, multi-sensory approach to ethnographic witnessing to trace Mozambique’s nationwide wave of protest. The protests began with rapper Azagaia’s death in March 2023, i... 000
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Found 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". 000
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 06/06/2025I 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. 010
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 06/06/2025"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? 000
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 06/06/2025This reminds me about a Finnish short story whose title could be translated "Potato is not an Item". Anyone remembers an author? 010
Reposted by Janne RantalaAndré Bruwer @andrebruwer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Oh great, they're predicting snow over Gauteng next week. 😩 Well, I guess I'm buying a heater over the weekend. 261
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Thanks 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...doi.orgA Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican RapThis 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 ... 000
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 04/06/2025🧵4/4 An expanded version of the exam reading will appear in the text book: Planet Rap: Global Hip Hop and Postcolonial Perspectives, ed. by. Prof. J. Griffith Rollefson @ucc.ie (Pretoria: HSRC Press). hsrcpress.ac.za #RapMoz #PostcolonialStudies #academicsky #Reachhsrcpress.ac.zaHome - HSRC PRESSHSRC Publishing is Africa’s leading scholarly book publisher in the social sciences and humanities. As an independent publishing house and external-facing cross-cutting business unit of the HSRC, with... 000
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 04/06/2025🧵3/4 Based on my journal article: “A Sonic Biography of an After-Life: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap” @jsas-journal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #RapMoz #PostcolonialStudies #academicsky #anthropology #PopularHistorytandfonline.comA Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican RapThis 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 ... 111
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 04/06/2025🧵2/4 Brightest minds of the generation studied this piece yesterday and are now googling #RapMoz & @jsas-journal.bsky.social etc: 🎧 Theme: “What do rap rhymes reveal about Mozambique’s history?” (in Finnish) menejatieda.fi/mita-rapriim... #RapMoz #AcademicSky #HipHop #PublicHistory #MusicSkymenejatieda.fiMitä räpriimein kerrotaan Mosambikin historiasta?Eteläisen Afrikan siirtomaavallan vastaisen kamppailun muistoa muokkaavat monet erilaiset tahot. Kuva, jota valtapuolueet tai historiankirjat rakentavat menneisyydestä, saattaa erota suurestikin siitä... 110
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 04/06/2025🧵1/4 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 🏺youtube.comAzagaia: Homem Bomba part. Macross Maguguana & Jorge Domingos (guitarrista)YouTube video by Azagaia Music 182
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 03/06/2025You 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. 🤗 010
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Uma 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 011
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 03/06/20253/3 Baseado no: “A Sonic Biography of an After-Life. The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap”, @jsas-journal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Versão alargada sairá no: Global Hip Hop and Postcolonial Perspectives, org. J. G. Rollefson (Pretória: HSRC Press).tandfonline.comA Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican RapThis 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 ... 000
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 03/06/20252/3 O artigo lido hoje por quasi 3000 candidatos: 🎧 “O que nos contam as rimas de rap sobre a história de Moçambique?” menejatieda.fi/mita-rapriim...menejatieda.fiMitä räpriimein kerrotaan Mosambikin historiasta?Eteläisen Afrikan siirtomaavallan vastaisen kamppailun muistoa muokkaavat monet erilaiset tahot. Kuva, jota valtapuolueet tai historiankirjat rakentavat menneisyydestä, saattaa erota suurestikin siitä... 100
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 03/06/20251/3 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 #HistóriaPopularyoutube.comAzagaia: Homem Bomba part. Macross Maguguana & Jorge Domingos (guitarrista)YouTube video by Azagaia Music 110
Reposted by Janne RantalaGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Our letter condemning the genocide in #Gaza and calling for an immediate ceasefire. A great crime is being committed, and we cannot stand by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...theguardian.comZadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid 27987340
Reposted by Janne RantalaMartin Kalb @historianmkalb.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Stumbled upon this cartoon today (The Namibian, 18 December 1987) #Namibia #colonialism 0114
Reposted by Janne RantalaAna Gomes @anagomes54.bsky.social · 18/05/2025#Israel, Estado terrorista e genocida. expresso.pt/internaciona...expresso.ptGaza: mais de 140 mortos em 24 horas, Costa e Guterres pedem entrada de ajuda humanitária, Israel e Hamas voltam às negociações no Catar<p>ONU alerta para “limpeza étnica” no enclave, após intensos ataques no último dia, que provocam mais de 140 mortos. António Costa diz-se “chocado” com as notícias que chegam da Palestina e Guterres ... 2398
Reposted by Janne RantalaAna Gomes @anagomes54.bsky.social · 17/05/2025www.publico.pt/2025/05/17/m...publico.ptPrémio Nelson Mandela atribuído a advogado de Venâncio Mondlane assassinado em OutubroCom escolha de Elvino Dias, a ProPública envia “mensagem de solidariedade” aos advogados moçambicanos” e chama a atenção para um país com registo “lamentável” de “desrespeito pelos direitos humanos”. 042
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 16/05/2025P.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... 010
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Q: 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... 010
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 15/05/2025For 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. 9/9 110
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 15/05/2025In 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. 8/9 110
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Unfortunately, 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. 7/9 100
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Russian imperialism, similarly to other European and US imperialism still requires African raw materials, and markets for its own oil and gas. In genuinely imperialist manner Russia is indeed very thirsty of raw materials: gold, uranium, strategic minerals... blogs.prio.org/2023/03/soft... 6/9blogs.prio.orgSoft Power and Disinformation: The Strategic Role of Media in Wagner’s Expansion in Africa – PRIO BlogsAfter its first steps on the African continent in Libya in 2017, the Wagner Group has been deployed in Sudan, Mozambique, Madagascar, the Central African Republic, and at the end of 2021 in Mali. This... 100
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 15/05/2025But what is the reason and who benefits all this? Russia's African operations are linked to its ambition of regional empire in Eurasia and subsequent invasion to its neighbouring countries, most remarkably to Ukraine, but not only. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1... 5/9washingtonpost.comInside the effort to market Russia and Putin to AfricansThe Africa Initiative is part of an opaque network of groups that Western officials and analysts say the Kremlin uses to spread Russian influence in Africa. 110
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 15/05/2025The main actor of the campaign is one of the signatories of Berlin congress and evidently Europe´s most racist country, Russia, which pays in cash to major local producers. That´s why Traóre is often promoted alongside another dictator, Putin. www.rand.org/pubs/comment... 4/9rand.orgRussia Is Riding an Anti-Colonial Wave Across AfricaModern authoritarian regimes exploit anti-colonial rhetoric to advance their own geopolitical agendas and undermine Western influence. Unlike the genuine anti-colonial movements of the Cold War, today... 110
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 15/05/2025This is misappropriation of 1. legitimate desire for decolonisation, 2. frustration to French neocolonialism, arrogance, and 3. indifference of the Western media to the Global South and its people, and it isn't fundamentally motivated by African benefit, but European imperialism. I show you how. 3/9 100
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Actors such as Wagner, Africa Initiative and Russian Today has painted Tráore as African superhero, a leader of new anti-imperialism and present-day Thomas Sankara. However, despite of wearing red beret, the similarities to Thomas Sankara's anti-imperialism are in best case superficial. 2/9 110
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 15/05/2025What is behind idolisation of a military dictator of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Tráore, and promotion of his alleged achievements? Is he really a contemporary anti-imperialist hero? Who organises the campaign and benefits from it? A thread 1/9 123
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 14/05/20252/2 Esta disinformação pro Ibrahim Traóre fabricada pela Russia tem base duma apropriação indevida do: - Desejo legítimo de descolonização - Frustração do neocolonialismo e da arrogância franceses - E da indiferença do Occidente e de sua mídia para o Sul Global - Legado de Thomas Sankara. 000
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 14/05/20251/2 Hipótese: A idolização deste ditator é o resultado da fabricação da disinformação motivada pela ambição russa de um império regional na Eurásia, para o qual necessita de matérias-primas africanas e de mercados para seus recursos naturais. 100
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Dear brothers in law in Joni. White Afrikaaner “refugees” in the USA... Are you going to take them back to RSA after their prodigal son months oversees? 010
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Indeed, e.g. Russian backed idolisation of the dictator is depressing. And sorry to change the topic, but what possibly means "kaya" in the region? I saw it on the map. 000
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Sad to see Mozambique in the last position although it is positive that even here a majority is fro media freedom. 010
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Delighted to share the first article in my series on Hip Hop and the current revolt in Mozambique: Just published in JPMS,UC Press. 🔗 online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article... @burrata.bsky.social @ehphd.bsky.social @ericdharvey.com @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social @chuckdpe.bsky.social @isasbigini.bsky.socialonline.ucpress.eduTo Brother AzagaiaA Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and BeyondDear Azagaia,Believing, in good African fashion, that you are present wherever you are remembered, I once again address my words directly to you. Right now, here in Mozambique, crowds are contesting t... 130
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Ping @burrata.bsky.social @ehphd.bsky.social @ericdharvey.com @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social 000
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Great issue, not only because there are my fieldnotes about rapper Azagaia's legacy in on-going uprising in Mozambique and beyond. 'To Brother Azagaia: A Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and Beyond' Just published in JPMS (UC Press). 🔗 online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...online.ucpress.eduTo Brother AzagaiaA Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and BeyondDear Azagaia,Believing, in good African fashion, that you are present wherever you are remembered, I once again address my words directly to you. Right now, here in Mozambique, crowds are contesting t... 152
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Delighted to share the first article in my series on Hip Hop and the current conjuncture in Mozambique: 'To Brother Azagaia: A Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and Beyond' Just published in Journal of Popular Music Studies (UC Press). 🔗 online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article... 001
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 10/04/2025"To Brother Azagaia: A Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and Beyond" Uma novidade que recebi hoje diretamente de West Coast: trata-se da minha publicação em Journal of Popular Music Studies que iniçia uma séries sobre o Hip Hop e a conjunctura actual em Moz: online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...online.ucpress.eduTo Brother AzagaiaA Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and BeyondDear Azagaia,Believing, in good African fashion, that you are present wherever you are remembered, I once again address my words directly to you. Right now, here in Mozambique, crowds are contesting t... 000
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 10/04/2025"To Brother Azagaia: A Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and Beyond" Uma novidade que recebi hoje diretamente de West Coast: trata-se da minha publicação em Journal of Popular Music Studies que iniçia um série sobre o Hip Hop e a conjunctura actual em Moz: online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...online.ucpress.eduTo Brother AzagaiaA Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and BeyondDear Azagaia,Believing, in good African fashion, that you are present wherever you are remembered, I once again address my words directly to you. Right now, here in Mozambique, crowds are contesting t... 000
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Nice. My piece about rapper Azagaia is also there. 000
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Feet in obsolete conspiracy theories of the southern Africaand a head in the West (with autumn leaves of the cold climate). 000
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 19/03/2025As my performances are mostly limited to paper presentations I would at least try to avoid watching notes. The crowd would soon boo to boring scholarship. Would "Azagaia - The Spear of the Nation" do? 000
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Textile industry worsens the issue for those who use "women's trousers", which have ridiculously small pockets. 110
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 09/03/2025O playlist para 9/3 é do artigo que trata a morte do Azagaia (2023) como um evento histórico que iniciou a onda dos protestos que posteriormente, sobretudo depois dos assassinatos do Elvino Dias *e *Paulo Guambe, 19/10/2024, transformou-se em revolta popular que testemunhamos neste quotidiano. 000