By Arthur Choga
My first memory of Stella Chiweshe was on a small Supersonic transistor radio powered by an Eveready PM9 battery. Yes, that black battery with the silver lines.
This...
Stella Chiweshe, Zimbabwe's mbira legend, has died in Harare at age 76. Here, we republish a piece by writer PERCY ZVOMUYA, in which he spoke to Chiweshe on how she defied detractors to become the foremost player...
By Chris Chenga
Back in May, the Gems returned to Harare on a wet and cold Sunday evening. They were coming from a Tri-Nations tournament in Malawi. They gave each other no long gestures...
By Ranga Mberi
We watched as the mupostori hoisted his flag over that open piece of land near our house.
He stood back and admired it as it fluttered in...
By Ranga Mberi
Here’s a story about how a folk song from Bulawayo became a cult classic in America.
Sometime in the 1940s, there was a man called George Sibanda,...
‘Dear Samantha’ was a letter from Dambudzo Marechera to his lover, Samantha, has often gone viral on social media. Only that, it wasn’t from Marechera. It was, in fact, written by Austin Kaluba, a Zambia writer, as...
By Melanie Boehi
Jimalo, the main protagonist in Farai Mudzingwa’s short story Green Shadows in the Kiya Kiya Republic (Mbonga Press, 2021), is trying to survive in a dystopian Zimbabwe in which the formal...
By Farai Mutsaka
For the first time in his life, Gift Livingstone Sango, 65, saw a painting by his father depicting Jesus as a Black man.
“My father used to draw...
By Chris Chenga
At some point, every Zimbabwean wonders: "Why isn't there money in our sports?"
The curiosity has become more pertinent as sports business worldwide has exploded to contribute to...
By Enock Muchinjo
Legendary Jamaican Steve Bucknor set the benchmark for cricket umpires of African heritage. The man from the West Indies was a colossal figure in the game, umpiring a record 128...
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