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...floods. They have different styles - the brash Mapfumo is more head-on political; Mtukudzi, the soft-spoken storyteller, prefers parables. But their songs are variations on a common theme - building a great Zimbabwe. While Mugabe jets around the world, these two musicians rebuke and encourage the people back home. Protest songs may have largely died out in the West after the Vietnam era. But in southern Africa, where music is more than just a soundtrack to people's lives, they still matter. "When I sing, I am raising the Zimbabwean flag," says Mtukudzi. If Mugabe, nature and circumstance have brought...
...bars and beerhalls. "Ministers had better listen," says Tsodzo. "Musicians are voicing what the people are saying." Mapfumo's latest album, Toi Toi, was released three weeks ago in Zimbabwe. The sounds are familiar - melodic mbira, twangy guitars, Big Band brass. The name comes from a type of protest music, but Mapfumo's manager, Cuthbert Chiromo, says Toi Toi is "more reflective, less political." Not apolitical - this is Mapfumo, after all. The biggest buzz among the fans is about the track Timothy. The song censures a fool who endangers children. The President is often called T.I.M. - "That Idiot Mugabe." Coincidence...
...begin a parliamentary battle to force the ruling center-right majority to put some teeth into its proposed conflict advisory board. Berlusconi's running of the state-owned RAI network has drawn the harshest criticism. The Feb. 15 antiwar march in Rome, which drew more than a million people protesting the Prime Minister's pro-U.S. position, was not covered live as is usually the case for rallies of such importance. The decision again spotlit RAI 's troubled board, whose seats are traditionally divvied up among majority and opposition Members of Parliament. Only board president Antonio Baldassarre and another...
...people, including well-known academics, signed a petition in China's first public protest against war in Iraq...
More than 60 protesters, most of them members of the Harvard Committee on Central America (COCA) and the Boston-area Central America Solidarity Association (CASA), had gathered outside the gym at about 2:30 p.m., to protest Cristiani's alleged human rights abuses in El Salvador...