Category: Culture
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Zimbabwe’s Showbiz Converts
Leonard Zhakata The power of music suspends every faculty and revolves the world around the object of affection. Musicians are power brokers – a fact universally acknowledged by corporates, politicians, suitors and others – hence their tag-along function in just about anything that takes influence to effect. Regrettably, when most musicians ditch the stage for…
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Charamba Preaches to Zimdancehall Artists
Charles and Olivia Charamba Zimdancehall has upstaged other genres to become the household phenomenon of the moment. While traditional genres are struggling for survival, dancehall is flinging its mojo into previously closed spaces. Ghetto chanters are staking their claim to the showbiz presidium, and the nation is reverberating along. It is the reinvention of culture…
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Zimbabwean Literature’s Finest
Memory Chirere (Photo Credit: The Herald) Memory Chirere’s “Bhuku Risina Basa Nekuti Rakanyorwa Masikati” on Saturday won the National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) accolade for the Outstanding Fiction Book, affirming the dominance of local languages in the category. Chirere’s debut poetry anthology was closely contested by Emmanuel Sigauke’s short story collection “Mukoma’s Marriage and Other…
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George Kahari’s 50-Year Journey in Literature
Maurice Vambe, George Kahari and Memory Chirere (Photo Credit: KwaChirere) “Nothing good can come out of Zimbabwe,” has become the byword of the day. We lack an aggressive estimation of our potential as a nation.Pessimism runs the tapestry of our national outlook. We justify this self-deprecation by playing second fiddle to others on many platforms.…
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SOS for Literature in Indigenous Languages
Tsumo neMadimikira Zimbabwean literature has a wealth of indigenous narratives which merit greater appreciation and a durable shelf life. At high tide, local languages cross-fertilised proverbial lore and individual creativity to create one of the proudly Zimbabwean success stories in local arts. There was a time when the writers kept the reading public posted with…
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Interview with Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Tinashe Mushakavanhu Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (TM) is one of the better-known “born-free” Zimbabwean writers and academics. He has edited Emerging Perspectives on Chenjerai Hove: Literature, Politics and Culture, Remembering Marechera, and State of the Nation: Contemporary Zimbabwean Poetry and contributed to several anthologies including Writing Africa in the Short Story, Writing Now: More Stories from Zimbabwe, A…
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ZIBF @ 31: Promises and Perils
Charles Mungoshi The Zimbabwe International Book Fair spread its turf to Bulawayo last weekend for the regional edition of the festival. The book fair ran under the theme “Indigenous Languages, Literature, Art and Knowledge Systems of Africa” at the City Hall. Writers, publishers, librarians, and booksellers at the workshop engaged the theme with a varied…
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Recollections of Journalism in the Line of Fire
Creatures at the Top Book: Creatures at the Top Author: Stephen Mpofu Publisher: Spiderwize (2012) Stephen Mpofu belongs to that rare breed of Zimbabwe’s pioneer journalists for whom the newsroom was a vocation not a default option. Back in the day, journalism did not occur naturally on the inventory of professions available to blacks. By…
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Dark Cloud Hangs Over ZIBF
Musaemura Zimunya (Photo Credit: The Herald) The Masvingo edition of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair which was slated for May 30 to 31 was cancelled on the last minute due to lack of funding. ZIBF chairperson Musaemura Zimunya told stakeholders on Wednesday that sponsors had withdrawn funding on short notice. He said the organisers unsuccessfully…
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Poor Funding Threatens ZIBF
ZIBF board members and delegates (Photo Credit: Zimbojam) The Bulawayo edition of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) was almost cancelled after the foreign donor withdrew funding on short notice. ZIBF chairperson Musaemura revealed that the regional fair had run aground if not for publishers who jostled in with contributions in time to save the…
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