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Music is Culture is an unusual organization, dedicated to preserving and nurturing at-risk cultures around the world. Among their projects is one focused on the Ndau ethnic group in southern Zimbabawe ...
Through astonishing political ignorance, those who claim to be the successors to the Zezuru throan today, Constantino ...
Embeth Davidtz remembers the violence — and the fear. When she was 8, she moved from bucolic New Jersey, with its rolling ...
Through the Shona translation, Gappah said they had been able to bring added depth, meaning and humour for readers as their characters use the different Shona dialects spoken around Zimbabwe.
The ancient city of Great Zimbabwe was an engineering wonder. But archaeologists credited it to Phoenicians, Babylonians, Arabians – anyone but the Africans who actually built it.
From the mbira-led soul of Chimurenga to the genre-bending rhythms of Zimdancehall, Afropop, and amapiano fusions, Zimbabwe’s ...
Nearly 20,000 Shona citizens once animated the 1,800-acre ruins of Great Zimbabwe. Sub-Saharan Africa has many zimbabwes, or stone villages, but this one is by far the most legendary.All that ...
Great Shona writers – such as Solomon Mutswairo, Patrick Chakaipa and more recently Ignatius Mabasa – have written books that use allegory to respond to a range of crises in Zimbabwe.
AMH is an independent media house free from political ties or outside influence. We have four newspapers: The Zimbabwe Independent, a business weekly published every Friday, The Standard, a weekly ...
Zimbabwe’s constitution, adopted in 2013, allows parliament to impeach and remove the president if lawmakers feel he is incapacitated. Mnangagwa is one of Africa’s oldest heads of state. In ...
Through the Shona translation, Gappah said they had been able to bring added depth, meaning and humour for readers as their characters use the different Shona dialects spoken around Zimbabwe.
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" - this famous quote from George Orwell's satirical novel has found such resonance in Zimbabwe that author Petina Gappah has ...