mhondoro marauders show
episodes one and two

Episode 1: The Digital Now - The Changing Same

This broadcast - the first in a project extending into 2023 - explores questions of what constitutes the ‘digital’ in relation to African Space Programmes, and programmes which restructure and reconstitute space and time in Africa. Taking an expanded view of both the digital and Space technology through Chimurenga music - in this case, primarily by Thomas Mapfumo but also including A Tribe Called Quest and Amiri Baraka - this episode explores the 'technics' (Simone, 2021), bluffs, tricks, and whisper networks through which sound extended the liberation struggle into other atmospheric registers in Zimbabwe; spaces that were both intimately connected to the land whilst simultaneously sub- and supra-terrestrial too.

Gratitude and credit to all tracks, interviews and recordings sampled in this piece, including:

- Cal Tjader, "Aquarius"
- A Tribe Called Quest, “Midnight Marauders Tour Guide”
- Thomas Mapfumo, “Mapfumo Speaks: Hallelujah”
- Thomas Mapfumo, “Mapfumo Speaks: Mr Smith”
- Thomas Mapfumo, “Gwindingwe Rine Shumba”
- Hallelujah Chicken Run Band, Ngoma Yarira
- Amiri Baraka, “Nation Time”
- James Brown & The Famous Flames, “Money Wont Change You - Pt. 1”
- Edward George in The Last Angel of History, dir. John Akomfrah
- Abdoumaliq Simone, extracts from a seminar at IAPSIS Stockholm, Dec 6, 2021

Broadcast-performance for the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) Digital-Now Fellowship.
Originally aired 15 December 2021

Episode 2: The Digital Way

Episode two touches base in Watamu (Kenya) Cape Town (South Africa) and Mazowe (Zimbabwe)in search of the ‘Digital Way’, an elastic and expansive term that, in its intersections with the particularities of place, stretches the ‘digital’ yet again.

[Developed with support of the Digital Now Mellon Fellowship, Canadian Centre for Architecture]

Gratitude and credit to all tracks, interviews and recordings sampled in this piece, including:

- A Tribe Called Quest, “Midnight Marauders Tour Guide”
- The Green Arrows, “Madzangara Dzimu”
- The Green Arrows, “Musango Mine Hangaiwa”
- Analog Africa interview with Zexie Mantasa, 2017
- Kevin Anthony Otieno, Watamu

Developed with support of the Digital Now Mellon Fellowship, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)