Zimbabwe: Rodger, Over? a Tribute to Cde Chinx

In March, I spent about four hours in Harare with Cde Chinx together with two of his sons, Chinx was a leading Chimurenga musician and veteran of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.I'd spent longer hours previously with the man who addressed me by the name of my great grandfather, Mambo Chiwashira who, like his own great grandfather Mambo Chingaira Makoni, was murdered and decapitated by British colonial forces in the 1890s.

Their heads were delivered to the British queen, and they are still to be returned.

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