Panashe Chigumadzi
@PanasheChig
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Writer, historian, Chihera. Author of These Bones Will Rise Again https://t.co/4Wx3lFuJ7D…. IG: @panashechigumadzi
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Incredibly proud, excited, nervous to share news of my second book, These Bones Will Rise Again. A reflection on Mugabe's ouster through the spirits of anti-colonial heroine Mbuya Nehanda and my late grandmother Mbuya Lilian Chigumadzi Out in June by @PressIndigoThe
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In my new @BostonReview essay, “The Land Question,” I contend that “within the liberal international order, it is ‘reasonable’ and ‘workable’ to struggle to end apartheid and racial segregation, while it is ‘unreasonable’ and ‘unworkable’ to struggle to end settler colonialism
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Join me today for my @CASCambridge seminar on Ubuntu as an ethics of war and conquest (subject of my PhD and forthcoming book) at 4.30 PM British Time/ 6.30 PM Central African Time. Virtual registration here - https://t.co/Ftvys9yRot
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BREAKING: The International Court of Justice orders Israel take all measures to prevent genocide, ensure its military forces don't commit those acts, prosecute its incitement and that it must allow basic services and protect relevant evidence.
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BREAKING: The ICJ orders Israel to take all measures within its power to prevent genocide. 🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/U7oDWAWTvR
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BREAKING: International Court of Justice says it has taken into account comments made by Israeli defense minister regarding 'human animals' in Gaza
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EXCLUSIVE: South Africa's Foreign Minister, Naledi Pandor, ahead of today's International Court of Justice ruling
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Read Zoé Samudzi’s excellent piece on the German genocidal force in Namibia. The quote in the tweet below holds true for all genocides including the current. Reparative Futurities: Thinking From the Ovaherero and Nama Colonial Genocide - THE FUNAMBULIST
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In the first decade of the 20th century, colonial Germany committed a genocide of 75% of the Ovaherero population and over half of the Nama in territories that are part of today Namibia. In this text…
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Lebo Mathosa & Brenda Fassie on the same stage at the same damn time. I am one of the luckiest generations to witness this beautiful musical history.
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again, the refusal to acknowledge what the germans did in namibia 30 years prior to the holocaust is a clear example of antiblack historical revisionism.
the holocaust is, to date, the only mass industrialized, hyperbureaucratic genocide of its type in history, and in order for it to succeed, it needed the mass consent of such a large amount of people that it is almost impossible to duplicate
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Game of Thrones stars and other actors read South Africa's case file charging Israel with genocide at the #ICJ
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And they ate because the fact Germany’s genocide of Black Africans doesn’t AT ALL shape the popular memory is exactly what we mean by genocide’s historical politics of recognition being anti-Black
BREAKING: Namibia says it 'rejects Germany’s support of the genocidal intent of the racist Israeli state' and says that 'Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century' on Namibian soil
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Let’s just address this ancestral disrespect quickly. Many of our ancestors fought like hell, resisted like hell, were imprisoned, tortured, abused… they were not silent. They were overpowered. Many of them did not give up, nor should you. The end.
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There's something hard for us, children of the colonised, to articulate because the world is upside down. Europe and its descendants, can't differentiate between principle and episode. This is why Germany (and much of Europe) is doomed to be genocidal. Here is what I mean. 🧵
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Namibia rejects Germany’s Support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against Innocent Civilians in Gaza On Namibian soil, #Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most
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As we praise South Africa, please don’t forget Yemen also which has been paying in blood & hunger to disrupt the genocide wheel & relieve Palestinians. A dozen of Yemenis were killed in the process by the US, & food aid for millions of Yemenis has been cut off.
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