5/29/2023 0 Comments Choriro by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa![]() This paper, by focusing on the instrumental use of culture in FRELIMO’s political project, extricates the formation of the Mozambican nation from the nationalism of the armed struggle. ![]() The nationalist revolutionary political program sought to interrogate Eurocentric epistemologies by denouncing the colonized historiographic and biographic loci of enunciation, and by projecting a different, decolonized project for Mozambique that was politically and epistemologically delinked from the colonial episteme. Indeed, the music, broadcast in the various native languages, defied colonial representations, contributing to the development of a nationalist perspective based upon a new epistemological position. As a crucial part of the nationalist struggle, various african communities, speaking the native languages of Mozambique, cntributed towards developing a new sense of belonging to an alternative, nationalist project. In nationalist, anti-colonial liberation struggle in Mozambique, music became a mode of political expression and a political enactment. ![]() Music can play a fudamental role in political struggles. ![]()
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