Category: Culture
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Toys in the Rain
Adam and Eve bit their Apple before Steve. Man gave names to all the animals But left totems in the garden To spin toy stories for a rainy day. Something is missing, Said he of rib-shaped ache...
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Interview – TRACE TV Co-Founder Claude Grunitzky Chases His Next Idea
Claude Grunitzky documented the urban culture scenes of different regions with his early media venture, TRACE TV. As lockdown put new emphasis on decentralised work culture, the Togolese-American journalist and businessman rolled out his new idea, TRUE Africa University, to empower the young African entrepreneurs going it alone. He shares insights into his work in…
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Zimbabwe International Book Fair Flexes Proof of Life after Two-Year Covid-19 Break
Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) came to town last week (from 30 September to 1 October) after a two-year COVID-19 break. The book fair did not live up to its international billing as it was poorly attended and short on sponsorship. Organisers are sending a message that they are still out here and need more…
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Zimunya and Munhumumwe: Two Cousins Artistically Defined Our Independence
Musaemura Zimunya and Marshall Munhumumwe’s culturally immersive and nationally minded writing and music have a foundational place in the Zimbabwean canon. The cousins not only found success in the early years of independence but also set the tone for others with distinctively Zimbabwean art. Zimunya remembers his great cousin, who died in 2001, in this…
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Lovemore Majaivana’s Totem Feast – A Philosophy (Part 1)
Rukudzo Onai discusses the metaphysical dimension of Zimbabwean mbaqanga pioneer Lovemore Majaivana’s music in the context of Ndebele orature.
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Mark Ngwazi Is Sungura’s Cyber Orator
Mark Ngwazi inherited a Sungura songbook which depended a little too much on folk wisdom and flat moralising. Humour, wordplay and counterintuitive observation could be Ngwazi’s strongest points but his charisma provides the binding virtue to the songs he is building from memes, jokes and wisecracks. Six albums in, his outdoor church is only growing.
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Connected States of Africa – Creatives Look Beyond National Lockdowns
The Covid-19 pandemic interrupted dynamic Pan-African movements and efforts but artists are regrouping to pursue new opportunities enabled by the internet. Digitally and financially inclusive models are the next step to empower citizens and creatives, circumventing various existing restrictions.
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Zimbabwe Reintroducing Literature Bureau to Promote Indigenous Languages
Zimbabwe is preparing to reintroduce the Literature Bureau to promote the publication of literature in indigenous minority languages.
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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 forever be stuck in the ghetto of the music world.
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Dokora Extends the Right Hand of Fellowship
Primary and Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora Reform is a ringing song as Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora sets forth the initial phases of the new curriculum. Minister Dokora has come across as a perpetual revolutionary for entering into force a series of reforms in recent months, but there is a reference…
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