The Military Entertainment Complex: Chimurenga Afrosonic Making of Zimbabwe

An insightful exploration of the role of Zimbabwean liberation music—Chimurenga music—in shaping the history and politics of postcolonial Zimbabwe.

The Military Entertainment Complex by Mhoze Chikowero is the story of the making of post-independence Zimbabwe from the sounds and songs born of the country’s armed liberation wars, waged against British Rhodesian white settler rule since the 1890s.

The war from 1896 through the twentieth century to resist the initial colonization, as well as the ...