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This article tracks the life of the song 'Umshini Wami' (My Machine Gun) adopted by Jacob Zuma, the President of the African National Congress, since early 2005. It explores the wider implications of political song in the public sphere in South Africa and aims to show how 'Umshini Wami' helped Jacob Zuma to prominence and demonstrated a longing in the body politic for a political language other than that of a distancing and alienating technocracy. The article also explores the early pre-Zuma provenance of the song, its links to the pre-1994 struggle period and its entanglement in a seamless masculinity with little place for gendered identities in the new state to come. It argues too that the song can be seen as unstable and unruly, a signifier with a power of its own and not entirely beholden to its new owner
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185594
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Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Bangladesh, the government has struggled to enforce regulations to curb spread of the disease. People continued to travel to their desh (home village) not caring about the prescribed health guidelines even after national lockdown was announced. As per many people’s perspectives, they—the pious/Bangladeshis—were immune to COVID-19. Nevertheless, novel forms of stigmatisation emerged. In this article, I seek to illuminate why Bangladeshis violated the government-prescribed health guidelines and put themselves and their families at risk. I contend that, though it can be argued that not many people were aware of the seriousness of the coronavirus, the pandemic has exposed ontological potentialities and differences among the people of Bangladesh.
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