Tag: magitare

  • Syndicated Loverboy – Oliver Mtukudzi in Kwekwe

    Syndicated Loverboy – Oliver Mtukudzi in Kwekwe

    Syndicated 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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  • Mebo, Winky D and Karl Marx

    Mebo, Winky D and Karl Marx

    Few remember Karl Marx as a love poet but long before the shaggy economist was the poster-boy of regime change, he was an impassioned lyricist, smitten with the mortal madness of love like the rest of us. Despite his documented hate for capitalism, he concluded his love poems in cheesy capitals like: “LOVE IS JENNY,…

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  • The Njerama Files – Interview with Paradzai Mesi (Part 1)

    The Njerama Files – Interview with Paradzai Mesi (Part 1)

    Njerama Boys recorded 11 albums between 2000 and 2019. Their legacy rests on a prolific peak decade, boasting no less than five pure classics between 2002 and 2008. Onai Mushava (OM) recently rang the king of bohemians, Paradzai Mesi (PM) for his side of one of the truly complex stories of second-generation sungura.

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  • The History of Jah Prayzah… As Told through His Best Albums

    The History of Jah Prayzah… As Told through His Best Albums

    A roaring and smoking mbira song, one for the party animals, a Nollywood pity party to confuse the crush outside your league, and a two-season coup soundtrack – Jah Prayzah created the future by commanding the past. We look back to the career-defining moments of one of Zimbabwe’s greatest artists.

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  • INTERVIEW| Musaemura Zimunya and Marshall Munhumumwe – When Blood Is Thick as Ink

    INTERVIEW| Musaemura Zimunya and Marshall Munhumumwe – When Blood Is Thick as Ink

    A year after Munhumumwe’s “Makorokoto” won him Radio 2’s first independence-era number one song, his cousin Zimunya published “And Now the Poets Speak”, co-edited with Mudereri Kadhani, and set the tone for new Zimbabwean poetry. Few years later, he had written well enough to be considered Zimbabwe’s foremost poet. What did it mean for Zimunya…

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  • The Butterfly Dialectic

    The Butterfly Dialectic

    The Butterfly Dialectic Karl Marx is out of a job in black America. His last prophet, Cornel West, beats a grumpy retreat from blackface capital everywhere he turns. The culture, with its emphasis on appearance and acquisition, is not so much an ideology as it is an ontology. “Money trees is the perfect place  for shade”…

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  • Poptain Got the Right Mix

    Poptain Got the Right Mix

    Zimdancehall newest star, Poptain, brings to the craft a mix of social consciousness, intricate wordplay, effortless cadence and casual patois fluency. The animated lyric video for his latest single, Freedom, may belatedly bring music lovers up to speed with his song writing abilities, but the underrated chanter has been ably grinding underground for half a…

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