Name: Military Arrangement
Duration: P00H00M43S
Description: (This track references a place in Southern Zimbabwe called Bhalagwe, at which place the biggest mass graves from the Gukurahundi genocide still exist up to this day. Dzamara is Itai Dzamara, a Zimbabwean activist still missing up to this day.)

Military Arrangement

from Chimurenga Files: The One Take Poverty Tape by Hillary Keni-Witsani

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(This track references a place in Southern Zimbabwe called Bhalagwe, at which place the biggest mass graves from the Gukurahundi genocide still exist up to this day. Dzamara is Itai Dzamara, a Zimbabwean activist still missing up to this day.)

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Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Military arrangement
Military arrangement

Bhalagwe's in the dreams sis
Bhalagwe's in the dreams man
Dzamara's in the jungle boy
Mass graves and get downs
Deadly knocks in the night
Military arrangement
Military arrangement

My people are down in the dirt
People are drowning in debt
My people are down in the dirt
Mass graves and get downs

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from Chimurenga Files: The One Take Poverty Tape, released January 1, 2019

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Hillary Keni-Witsani Zimbabwe

Avant-garde musician, writer, arranger and performer. Bends western music sounds to fit into African traditional and modern rhythms prevalent among the San and Kalanga people of Western Zimbabwe and Eastern Botswana.

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