The political and cultural life of the dead in Zimbabwe

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Notes

1 See L.H. Machiridza and N. Mazvihwa, ‘Liberation Heritage and “Patriotic History”: Preserving the Legacy of the “Soul of the Nation” at KwaVaMuzenda House Museum’, in T.P. Thondhlana, J. Mataga and D. Munjeri (eds), Independent Museums and Culture Centres in Colonial and Post-Colonial Zimbabwe: Non-State Players, Local Communities, and Self-Representation (London, Routledge, 2022), pp. 101–12; S. Mpofu, ‘Making Heroes, (Un)Making the Nation? ZANU-PF’s Imaginations of the Heroes’ Acre, Heroes and Construction of Identity in Zimbabwe from 2000 to 2015’, African Identities, 15 (1), pp. 62–78; K.Z. Muchemwa, ‘Galas, Biras, State Funerals and the Necropolitan Imagination in Re-Constructions of Zimbabwean Nation, 1980–2008’, Social Dynamics, 36, 3 (2010), 504–14; T. Ranger, ‘Nationalist Historiography, Patriotic History and the History of the Nation: The Struggle over the Past in Zimbabwe’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 30, 2 (2004), pp. 215–34.

2 J. Mataga, ‘Unsettled Spirits, Performance and Aesthetics of Power: The Public Life of Liberation Heritage in Zimbabwe’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 25, 3 (2019), pp. 277–97; J. Mujere, M.E. Sagiya and J. Fontein, 2017. ‘“Those Who are Not Known, Should Be Known by the Country”: Patriotic History and the Politics of Recognition in Southern Zimbabwe’, Journal of Eastern African Studies, 11, 1 (2017), pp. 86–114; D. Thram, ‘Patriotic History and the Politicisation of Memory: Manipulation of Popular Music To Re-Invent the Liberation Struggle of Zimbabwe’, Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies, 20, 2 (2006), pp. 75–88.