Author: Sororemvumba
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“Ndega Ndega”, Pengaudzoke (1994)
Click or not: “Ndega Ndega”, Pengaudzoke (1994)“Ndega Ndega”, Pengaudzoke (1994) The boys, Daiton Somanje, Josphat Somanje, Clever Somanje, Innocent Nyawani, Lameck Fadwick, Marefura Ngolowela and Laisan Ngolowela had everything in common in their Chitown quarters. The first bandmate to get married even stayed with his wife in the same room with the rest of the band. Ndega” (1994) is the first… …
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NHAURIRANO| Mutambo wekuKwereta Mabhuku muGaraji raSpiwe Mahachi-Harper
Click or not: NHAURIRANO| Mutambo wekuKwereta Mabhuku muGaraji raSpiwe Mahachi-HarperNHAURIRANO| Mutambo wekuKwereta Mabhuku muGaraji raSpiwe Mahachi-Harper Pfungwa dzangu dzakaramba dzichidzokera kuZimbabwe, kune vamwe vanofarira mabhuku seni. Ndaishuva kuti vawanewo mukana nemabhuku andanga ndaunganidza aya. Saka ndakaita shungu nekuunza mabhuku angu kuno. Ndichisvika Harare, ndakatanga nekushandura garaji rangu kuita imba yekuverengera. we Mahachi-Harper akadzoka kuZimbabwe muna2017 ndokusvikopaza garaji rake kumaflats ekuWestgate. Zvaipisa mabhuku ake ane… …
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DEVEDZO| Mabhuku neMapepa aGandashanga Stanlake Samkange
Click or not: DEVEDZO| Mabhuku neMapepa aGandashanga Stanlake SamkangeDEVEDZO| Mabhuku neMapepa aGandashanga Stanlake Samkange Mabhuku ake anosanganisira African Saga: An Introduction to African History (1971), anomutsidzira kwazvo ruremekedzo rwatinozvipa sevanhu vatema, uye akanyorwa panguva iyo vanamuzvinafundo vazhinji vaidukupisa rudzi rwedu vachikusha nhema dzeusvetasimba. Stanlake Samkange akavhurira Mashonaland musuwo weyunivhesiti paakatora dhigiri rayo rekutanga muna1947 paFort Hare University College. Kudzidza pachikomo kwaiera makore aya,… …
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Syndicated Loverboy – Oliver Mtukudzi in Kwekwe
Click or not: Syndicated Loverboy – Oliver Mtukudzi in KwekweSyndicated Loverboy – Oliver Mtukudzi in Kwekwe What was the divorce album he wrote his first wife, Melody, upon settling in the City of Gold? Which hometown rockstars did he kick it off with, having arrived from Harare without a band? What about his studio correspondence with Daisy, before and after Kwekwe? Oliver Mtukudzi slept… …
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When Dambudzo Marechera Met Aaron Chiundura Moyo – A Brief History of Zimbabwe’s Language Wars
Click or not: When Dambudzo Marechera Met Aaron Chiundura Moyo – A Brief History of Zimbabwe’s Language WarsIn newly independent Zimbabwe, language wars erupted between homecoming writers who had made their names in the language of exile and writers who had worked with the state-run Literature Bureau to grow a Ndebele and Shona canon. Onai Mushava revisits the cold encounters of two of Zimbabwe’s best known writers, Dambudzo Marechera and Aaron Chiundura… …
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Beyond Big Man Palaver: Pan-Africanism in 2022
Click or not: Beyond Big Man Palaver: Pan-Africanism in 2022Pan-Africanism means we will do it ourselves by doing it together. It grounds economic advancement, political liberation, cultural self-determination and territorial integrity in the unity of all African people on the continent and its diaspora. While the African Union has scored some important wins, African unity essentially fails along class lines. …
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MOVIE REVIEW| Kagiso Lediga’s “Catching Feelings”
Click or not: MOVIE REVIEW| Kagiso Lediga’s “Catching Feelings”Catching Feelings is a South African romantic comedy, written, directed and led by Kagiso Lediga. The Netflix thinkpic brings together sex, race and literature as seen through the insecurities of its cruelly self-probing lead character Max Matshane. …
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Juju, Ganja and Mafia at Dynamos
Click or not: Juju, Ganja and Mafia at DynamosJuju, Ganja and Mafia at Dynamos A long-serving captain at the country’s most successful football club, Mucherahowa identifies, in the course of his own life story, some of the millstones holding back Zimbabwe’s version of the beautiful game. Even at the high point of its glory days, during the 1998 CAF championship campaign, Dynamos reliably… …
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MOVIE REVIEW| Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You”
Click or not: MOVIE REVIEW| Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You”MOVIE REVIEW| Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You” Marxist Boots Riley left critical references to the U.S president out of his 2018 movie, Sorry to Bother You, so they do not feed the buzz at the expense of his less comfortable communist ideas. This lone-wolf angst is shared by Kendrick Lamar whose 2021 feature finds the… …
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Nas’ Ultra Black Theory
Click or not: Nas’ Ultra Black TheoryNas’ Ultra Black Theory “Ultra Black” is the most commercially successful Pan-Africanist artist’s white paper on Black power. As a hip hop capitalist, Nas is the unusual poet laureate who observes neither the saintly asceticism of Bob Marley nor the socialism of W.E.B Du Bois and George Padmore. As a lone-wolf intellectual, Nas may be… …