“The audio recordings of Zubo Trust’s women form a seizable online archive. Based on audio documentation, even the exchange of experiences among women from both sides of the river (or Kariba Lake) could be revived: Zubo women recordings featured in live broadcasts on the community radio station Zongwe FM in Sinazongwe Zambia, just across the Lake form Binga Zimbabwe. Here, Zubo women fishery project caused a small revolution of sorts; because apparently, women in rural Zambia do not yet enjoy such opportunities for economic participation. Relevant radio broadcasts of Zongwe FM featuring recordings from Binga are available in Zubo’s online audio archive (…)”
excerpt from a recently published article in the German “Graswurzel Revolution”
an English translation of the article is available for download
read more: https://radiocontinentaldrift.wordpress.com/2020/12/31/zubo-audio-collection-bb-coop/
It seems really impossible to believe that Keith has gone. What a great loss to all of us, foremost to his mother Pauline but also for the gay and lesbian community of Zimbabwe, GALZ, for the promotion of cultural exchange by Kunzwana Trust and for the Tonga.Online project and the Tonga community at large. Keith has always been in the forefront in pushing for tolerance and appreciation of cultural and sexual differences in society but was also actively involved in broader human rights campaigning and in the fight for access to affordable treatment for all people living with HIV/AIDS. And he was a composer and promoter of cultural diversity and inter-cultural exchange for many years.
