Mama Africa · Pathways converging on Mama Africa
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Mama Africa
Thematic DNA
Mama Africa (Miriam Makeba, 2000 (South Africa)) — a album that 5 pathways reach as a destination — converging on the lines of 'Exile sung in mother tongue', 'bassline as repatriation', 'Continent as wounded mother'. This page is a cross-reference rather than an editorially curated pathway: it lists the works whose own pathways pass through Mama Africa.
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Literature
Madagascar
Beyond the Rice Fields
Anchored in the pathway 'The Long Shadow of Colonial Silence', linked via the thread of 'Voice as portable homeland'.
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Chile
The House of the Spirits
Anchored in the pathway 'The Generational Loom of Political Ghosts', linked via the thread of 'exile as compositional method'.
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Music
Jamaica
Nyabinghi
Anchored in the pathway 'Drumming the Ancestors Awake', linked via the thread of 'bassline as repatriation'.
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Rwanda
Rwanda Not So Innocent
Anchored in the pathway 'Singing the Unspeakable Wound', linked via the thread of 'Continent as wounded mother'.
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