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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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Philani Nyoni Writes in the Moment for All Time
When I first saw poet Philani Nyoni performing, I was torn between my patriotic duty to feed him to police dogs and my immediate admiration for his densely allusive craft. A season of protest had just passed – smoke clearing away from the streets, and hashtag activists retiring into the fashion police – but Nyoni…
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Poptain got the right mix
Zimdancehall’s newest star, Poptain, brings to the craft a mix of social consciousness, intricate wordplay, effortless cadence and casual patois fluency. The animated lyric video for his latest single, Freedom, may belatedly bring music lovers up to speed with his song writing abilities, but the underrated chanter has been ably grinding underground for half a…
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Zimbabwe to reintroduce Literature Bureau
Aaron Chiundura Moyo, the highly regarded Zimbabwean novelist and television producer, has love-hate memories of the Literature Bureau but pictures it as a potential stimulus for the country’s rundown book sector. Moyo’s from journey a raw village wordsmith to one of the foremost names in Zimbabwean writing started at the Literature Bureau, which operated as…
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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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