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NCA
to launch protest album
Nqobani
Ndlovu, The Standard (Zimbabwe)
April
05, 2005
http://www.thestandard.co.zw/read.php?st_id=2067
BULAWAYO - THE
National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) has taken its constitutional
reform programme to the airwaves and is set to launch an album lamenting
the need for a new constitution, StandardPlus has established.
The six track
album titled NCA in Music: Singing for a new constitution is a compilation
of songs calling on the establishment of a new constitution that
will usher in a "democratic and open society".
"We have been
labelled traitors and conspirators, agents of the West - but our
desire for a new constitution shall continue," says one of the songs.
In an interview,
NCA spokesman Jessie Majome and Ernest Mudzengi (assistant chairperson)
said the launch would be done after the elections so that it has
more impact.
"All the focus
was on elections; the post election period is more appropriate,"
Mudzengi said.
However, the
name of the artists who took part in the project and the name of
the studio where it was recorded are shrouded in secrecy for fear
of persecution and the disruption of the whole project.
"We have to
protect them (artists) as the police might start running around
and confiscating the copies before they are on the market like they
did with the NCA preelection report," Majome said.
Songs on the
album include, Zvasiyana Papi, a song that says there is no difference
in the pre-independence and post independence period because of
the continued suffering, Isisekelo which calls for the struggle
for a new constitution to continue and Nyora Bumbiro, 'so that we
get freedom".
Other songs
include Huyai, a piece which says the country is still prisoner
to the Lancaster House constitution, What is the constitution and
Zimbabwe Arise which spreads the message that a people-driven constitution
will be born.
"They (the state)
have the electronic media which they have a tight control over but
the natural airwaves are free. We will distribute it massively and
then launch it," Majome said
The NCA, ever
at loggerheads with the government, has been agitating for a new
constitution, a struggle that has seen its members being arrested.
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