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  • “Ndega Ndega”, Pengaudzoke (1994)

    “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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  • The Solo Years of Biggie Tembo

    The Solo Years of Biggie Tembo

    The Solo Years of Biggie Tembo Out of Africa is the more solid artwork, spawning memorable hits like the poetically cryptic “Punza” and the politically assertive “Mozampique.”Baba of Jit is, on the other hand, filled with themes of loss, subdued, resigned, sorrowfully see-through, nostalgic for career highlights without quite recapturing them, content with literalist songwriting and reflective… …

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  • Thomas Mapfumo and the Language of Zimdancehall

    Thomas Mapfumo and the Language of Zimdancehall

    Thomas Mapfumo and the Language of Zimdancehall “You may say I do dancehall but do you know this name? Can you explain to us what dancehall means? It’s a Jamaican word,” said Mapfumo. “We don’t discourage our youths from entering music. But when you step into other people’s culture, do it in their language so… …

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  • Situations Vacant – Arts for Climate

    Situations Vacant – Arts for Climate

    Situations Vacant – Arts for Climate The reggae equivalent of the Julius Nyerere diss is perhaps Sizzla’s “Hungry Children.” The belligerent sing-jay challenges Babylon: “You are destroying Earth, yet you still want to go Mars.”     When the Apollo mission landed the first crew on the moon in 1969, founding Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere… …

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  • MADMEN AND INTROVERTS: ZIMBABWE'S VISUAL ARTISTS

    Dominic Benhura (Photo: Shona Art) Book: Mawonero/Umbono Edited by Ignatius Mabasa Publisher: Kerber Verlag (2015) ISBN: 978-3-86678-937-1 Zimbabwe’s earliest patriarchs were masters of art. The keynote symbols of our national identity are drawn from their visual heritage. San rock art prefaces the compendium of local history, while the Zimbabwe Bird, a soapstone legend of the… …

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  • MBARE'S SICK UNDERBELLY

    Mbare is the first home of Harare vendors, generational music talent, a storied stadium behind many a cheer and heartbreak, and the nerve centre of countrywide bus tours. Along with a century of cultural strivings, these claims give Mbare a cosmopolitan resume, making it one of the most famous suburbs in the country, and for… …

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  • WHY SHOULD GOVERNMENT TAX KNOWLEDGE?

    Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa The value of knowledge, chiefly its facility to maximise the human potential, is geographically agnostic. Knowledge is the foremost resource for any economy, and failure to access, utilise and regenerate it is often the difference between power and poverty. Fareed Zakaria’s 2015 book, “In Defense of a Liberal Education,” assigns the… …

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  • MUNGOSHI'S HUMOUR MILL AND FIRESIDE TALES

    Charles Mungoshi (Photo: goodreads.com) Book: The Milkman Doesn’t Only Deliver Milk Author: Charles Mungoshi Publisher: Baobab Book (1998) ISBN: 1-77909-006-4 Poetry is the most obscure stroke on Charles Mungoshi’s life-size canvas. The accomplished artist’s poetry anthology, “The Milkman Doesn’t Only Deliver Milk,” has not matched his prose and drama in popular reception. However, one may… …

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  • STITCHIE'S LOVE LETTER TO JAH

    Stitchie (Photo: groovinradiony.com) When dancehall singjay Stitchie became a candidate for baptism, he read a new meaning into his stage name instead of dropping it. The unlikely candidate reasoned that while the comic stagecraft of his days in the world had left people in stitches, the post-conversion Stitchie would stitch people’s lives back to God.… …

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  • HOMAGE TO CHENJERAI HOVE

    The late Chenjerai Hove (Photo: African Success) Silence, impassioned testimonials, and readings from “Shadows” and “Blind Moon.” The Literary Evening was not just the high point of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) but fitting homage for the country’s late-lamented second generation writer Chenjerai Hove. Although the evening, of July 31 at the National Art… …

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