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SUMMARY:Year of Global Africa:  Eye on Africa - Shingi Mavima
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 About the Speaker:\n
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 	Shingi Mavima is a Ph.D 
 candidate in the African American and African 
 program at MSU, and his dissertation is titled 
 "Popular Expressions of Pan-Africanism and 
 Southern African" Nationalism(s): Transformations, 
 Tensions and Reconciliations in South 
 Africa and Zimbabwe. His peer-reviewed publications 
 include "Bigger by the Dozens: The Prevalence 
 of Afro-Based Tradition in. Battle Rap" 
 (Journal of Hip Hop Studies) and "A Historiographical 
 Interrogation of Literature and 
 Discourse on the Gukurahundi Massacres (1982- 
 1987)" as well as "Stories of Struggle: The 
 Intractability of Early African Fiction from 
 Nascent African Nationalism in Rhodesia" both 
 published in the Journal of Pan-African Studies.\n
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 	About 
 the Talk:\n
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 This presentation 
 discusses how the 'new' government- and the 
 society at large- are negotiating the legacy 
 of this polarizing ideology one year since he 
 was deposed from power.\n
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 Sponsor: African Studies Center\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://africa.isp.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Ann Biersteker\n
 Contact phone: 517-884-2154\n
 Contact email: bierstek@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Rm 201 International Center
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