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The Solo Years of Biggie Tembo
When a music career underwhelms, artists are known to lean into religion, exile, retirement, isolation or drugs to wash away the torment. Biggie Tembo picked…
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Thomas Mapfumo and the Language of Zimdancehall
Thomas Mapfumo says Zimdancehall artists need the queen’s grammar-book or else they will be forever stuck in the ghetto. The Chimurenga maverick has insistently argued,…
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Thomas Mapfumo, Mbira Masters and Rhodesian Gatekeepers
Zimbabwe’s mbira sound is spiritual tender in world music. The mbira, perhaps the Southern African country’s flagship culture export, is a defining influence on the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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INSIDE MEMORY CHIRERE'S 'USELESS BOOK'
Memory Chirere Book: Bhuku Risina Basa Author: Memory Chirere Publisher: Bhabhu Books (2014) ISBN: 978-0-7974-5815-4 If simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, as Steve Jobs said,…
Gandanga uchariziva here ukariona, ukariona Zimbabwe yaro (Thomas Mapfumo, “Chitima cheRusununguko”, 1980)
Sororemvumba
Zita rangu ndini Sororemvumba guma rinovirima unga. Ukaona Sororemvumba waona vara resere seri kweuvaranomwe. Waonazve Dzivaguru Dambudzo Marechera, Mudyanadzo Mordikai Hamutyinei, Khumbul’amagwala Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Muremba Jacques Derrida, Mushawasha Joyce Jenje, Sarirambi Mhoze Chiwashira, Gorerazvo Stan Mudenge naSekuru vangu, Munhuwekure Janfeck Chekure. Sororemvumba rinotema, rinodada, harizezi! Warihwaka!
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Maonero Enyu
The pen does dance, Chasura.
Thanks a lot, Elder. I will be at it.
Thank you and I really respect your input,as I was friends with Albert Kapondoro and Philani Dube and indeed, they…
Soro rako chizinga chehuchi. Huya hwasvisvi, hwemvumvira. Batai basa muzukuru mukuru.
That was a good piece of poetry … keep up the extraordinary work.
it is more than obvious that people in Zimbabwe are more interested in circular music. the moment an artist switches…
THE GREAT HERO OF TRUE PAN AFRICANISM
Thanks, Babamukuru.
This is a great read for any sober thinking African.
Thanks, Vimbai. Will be waiting to hear your own assessment of the album.
Awesome stuff, I have not listened to this latest offering but will certainly take time to,
Zvikamu
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