We asked a young Zimbabwean to write down his views on last week's election. He wrote a poem instead.
Beyond it all, I will find myself
By Tatenda Chinondidyachii Mashanda
Beyond suffering
There lies my heart in the gully of despair
There lies...
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 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,...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS firm, TelOne, launched its video on demand service on Wednesday, as it pursues a diversification strategy away from its traditional voice offering.
TelOne has partnered South Africa’s Discover Digital to package the Digital Entertainment on Demand (DEOD) service.
As interest...
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
A lot has been said about the influence of Congolese and East African musicians on Zimbabwean music.
We know about rhumba and Kanindo, and how they gave Sungura
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...
On a Friday night back in March 2018, Daves Guzha sat inside
Theatre in the Park, smiling proudly as roars of laughter rang from the sold
out crowd that had come in to watch “Operation Restore Regasi”.
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...
When Dominic Benhura started creating traditional Zimbabwean
stone sculptures as a teenager four decades ago, he never imagined that art
would bring him fame or fortune.
Born to a peasant family in 1968 in Murewa, 90...
