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THE viral video of musicians Delroy Shewe, Saintfloew and their team singing a triumphant liberation song in Shona on the London Underground has really shaken the world.
Never mind some of the racist rants from American right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, who dubbed them ‘INVADERS.’
This the same Alex Jones, who is the founder of InfoWars, who is facing serious legal troubles, running into billions of dollars, in the United States for claiming the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting on December 14, 2012, was a hoax.
A gunman killed his mother and then went to the school where he shot dead 20 students and six adults. What matters is not what Alex Jones said in his usual deranged state.
What matters is that Delroy Shewe and Saintloew put together a video, which has gone viral around the world, and has caught the attention of the likes of Alex Jones.
The Zimbabwean artists filmed themselves singing together on a train, with the lyrics carrying a strong message about colonialism and the triumph of Zimbabwe’s liberation war forces.
It reminds the Rhodesians, and all the white people who were backing them, that they lost the war. The irony of singing a liberation song directed at colonialists while travelling through London was not lost on viewers with some finding the moment quite amusing.
Some social media users are praising the musicians.
“Well done, Cdes. Next time, also sing Nyika Yedu yeZimbabwe! The outrage over Delroy Shewe and Saintfloew singing ‘Maruza Imi’ on a British train says more about us than it does about them. We have an inferiority complex still standing at attention for its former master,” said political commentator Dereck Goto.
“Two young Zimbabwean artists singing it lightly and joyfully on a train, in the very country that once colonised them, is not disrespect.
“It is pure artistic genius. The symbolism is brilliant.”
