The Military Entertainment Complex
Chimurenga Afrosonic Making of Zimbabwe
$155.82
- Paperback
424 pages
- Release Date
4 August 2026
Summary
The Military Entertainment Complex
An insightful exploration of the role of Zimbabwean liberation music—Chimurenga music—in shaping the history and politics of postcolonial Zimbabwe.
The Military Entertainment Complex by Mhoze Chikowero is the story of the making of post-independence Zimbabwe from the sounds and songs born of the country’s armed liberation wars, waged against British Rhodesian white settler rule since the 1890s.
The war from 1896 through the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262053310 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262053314 |
| Author: | Mhoze Chikowero |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 424 |
| Release Date: | 4 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Global South Cosmologies and Epistemologies |
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ENDORSEMENTS
“This is a timely book, a thoughtful call to arms in the unfinished business of liberation. Its refreshingly radical exploration of the link between music and Chimurenga will shift paradigms.”
—Nyasha Mboti, Associate Professor, University of the Free State; author of Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto
Mhoze Chikowero
Mhoze Chikowero is Founder and Director of the UCSB Africa Center and a Research Fellow at Leiden University. His first book, African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe, won the Kwabena Nketia Book Award.
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