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Recordist's notes
Ngonidzashe Tapiwa aka Upmost, “Lost for Words…” Some of the poems recorded at Book Café are now also part of the online collection of Badelisha Poetry: http://badilishapoetry.com/. some were broadcast in Petronella’s “Soul Tuesday” Joy FM Lusaka on 5 Dec 2012: http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/page/69595/en http://archive.org/details/Voices_from_Lusaka playlist of the broadcast
About the place
Harare is a city of about 1,542,813 people in Harare, Zimbabwe. OttoAnna lists 29 field recordings from here.
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Upmost, “Lost for Words…”
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Sources & credits
- “The Book Cafe, Harare, Zimbabwe - Upmost, “Lost for Words…”” by radio continental drift – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0