Ban, Stifle and Censor | Mugabe Chickens out, bans 'Waka Waka' Band

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01 November, 2010

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President Robert Mugabe has banned a leading South African Afro-fusion band that wrote and performed the 2010 FIFA World Cup official song, ‘Waka Waka’, with Shakira from playing in Zimbabwe after their video showed him turning into a chicken. It’s painfully illegal in Zimbabwe to ridicule or in any way cut Mugabe down to size, and everybody knows that if there is one thing he is not, it’s a feathered friend. While Freshlyground weren’t told why Zimbabwe had revoked their work permits, the band members feel that it had something to do with their song ‘Chicken to Change’, which has Mugabe cruising in his limousine oblivious to the people’s troubles till the music begins and the Mugabe puppet metamorphoses into poultry. The band’s critics, not nearly as many as Mugabe’s, say that clucking at dictators will get you nowhere.

Robert Mugabe in ‘Chicken for Change’

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