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Is Tocky Vibes the Next Tuku?
By Onai Mushava If Van Choga is a drunken dragon on the stage, then Tocky Vibes is an ecological event in the studio. During the “New Dispensation” alone, Mr Vibes has already released seven projects – five studio albums, an acoustic compilation and a singles collection – besides uploading videos more often than your crush’s…
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Mebo, Winky D and Karl Marx
A church type from the countryside sneaks out of Zupco, his place in life disagreeably summarised by the catapult around his neck and the apostolic badge on his pocket. He looks around as if flustered by city lights and is, in fact, soon blown away by one: an uptown sweetheart called Mebo who chooses him…
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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, at least five years now, that dancehallers will never make it internationally as long as they continue singing a Jamaican genre in a Zimbabwean language. Speaking at a press conference…
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Juju, Ganga and Mafia at Dynamos
Zimbabwe’s global avatar has maxed out on grand narratives and pop consumables but occasionally underestimated the place of biography as a long night of the soul. Dynamos Football Club legend Memory Mucherahowa’s new book, “Soul of Seven Million Dreams”, refreshingly does away with airbrushing strokes and puts the health of a national institution up for…
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Burial of the Living
Early hours, when sun and song awaken the privileged to earth’s delights, and mellow vistas spread out, leaders may be surprised to know what it takes to endure life away from their vastly diverting luxuries. For then everyone must head away from the impartiality of dreams, each to a familiar course, to consolidate privilege or…
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