ABSTRACT This article explores the role of popular culture, especially music, in human rights struggles and global rights discourses. We highlight selected songs from Simphiwe Dana's albums, The One Love Movement on Bantu Biko Street (2006) and Kulture Noire (2010). The article centres on Dana's socially conscious music, which is replete with figurative use of streets, ways and journeys. According to African cosmologies, the journey motif is central to African narratives. In general, these narratives begin with a stability which is subsequently disturbed by imminent changes that obstruct the protagonists’ life plans, forcing them to leave their homes for exile. It is in exile that the protagonists receive counselling and training that prepares them for a return home. The protagonists’ journeys are therefore, healing journeys. Dana's music, which is influenced by the African cosmologies of Ayi Kwei Armah, Steve Biko and Frantz Fanon, follows a similarly circular pattern. The article discusses how Dana uses street symbolism in order to imagine healing as a journey to self and collective re-discovery after the material, cultural and spiritual dispossession caused by colonialism and apartheid.

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Simphiwe Dana音乐中的旅程，道路与治疗

摘要本文探讨了流行文化，特别是音乐在人权斗争和全球权利话语中的作用。我们重点介绍Simphiwe Dana专辑中的精选歌曲，即Bantu Biko Street上的The One Love Movement（2006）和Kulture Noire（2010）。这篇文章的重点是达纳（Dana）具有社会意识的音乐，其中充满了比喻性地使用街道，道路和旅程。根据非洲的宇宙学，旅程主题是非洲叙事的中心。通常，这些叙事以稳定为开端，随后由于即将发生的变化而干扰主角的生活计划，迫使主角流离失所，从而扰乱了主角的生活。主角在流亡中接受咨询和培训，为返回家园做准备。因此，主角的旅程就是康复旅程。达娜 受非洲Ayi Kwei Armah，Steve Biko和Frantz Fanon的非洲宇宙学影响的音乐遵循类似的圆形模式。本文讨论了达娜（Dana）如何利用街头象征主义，将康复想象为在殖民主义和种族隔离造成的物质，文化和精神剥夺之后，自我和集体重新发现的旅程。