Actor and producer Chipo Chung went to watch Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, a new film adapted from Alexander Fuller's book on Zimbabwe's liberation war, and came back more convinced; we need our own stories....
By Ranga Mberi
Growing up, I was always fascinated by a church they only called “chechi yemadhirezi marefu”. The church of the long dresses!
I’d see them on their way to...
By Arthur Choga
The conversations around Kelly Rusike, the talented jazz bassist who recently passed away in Harare, have been very interesting.
They paint a picture of how musicians who are...
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...
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,...
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...
In this instalment of 'Stories from Dangamvura', Chris Kabwato returns to the venues that once hosted some of Zimbabwe's most loved musicians. It's not quite the same. The music has left, and so has the glory days...
By Chris Kabwato
Over recent weeks, it has been pleasing to follow the nostalgic conversations on Twitter about the Zimbabwean music and artists of yesteryear.
It brought to my mind my...
By Ranga Mberi
The music journey of Zexie Manatsa, the Zimbabwean icon who has died of cancer at age 78, starts with two gifted brothers - and two stolen guitars.
A fascinating collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures by young Zimbabwean artists has gone on display after being recovered from the basement of a Shoreditch church.
They were all made in the 1940s and stored in St Michael and All...
