ABSTRACT
Chapter One deals with the continuation of the Shona musical identity in colonial and postcolonial Zimbabwe. Mamdani’s (1996) notion of indirect rule and “native and citizenship relationship” helps to question the artificial division of the African continent and how it affected the study of mbira music in southern Africa. Further to this, the author uses Landau’s (2010) study on the history of politics in South Africa. Landau (2010) suggests that before the colonial partition of the continent, there was a wide circulation of goods and culture in southern Africa.
