When Opportunists Borrow The Faces Of Victims

A call to protect truth as fiercely as we protect the vulnerable. There is an American woman named Roda...

Tora Gidi Uzvitonge

It’s rather unfortunate that the only visual reference that most Africans have of their history mostly come from colonial documents, and old...

Ambuya Nehanda In All Her Glory

I want my art to explore the fantasy of what if we treated women the same way we treated men. Would ambuya...

Desires And Archetypes

The image of Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana is bitterly etched into the collective consciousness of Zimbabwe. It comes from a photograph that was...

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African Women African Bodies

The 21st century has seen the increase of organisations, activists and individuals rising up against the society...

Culture

A Trap called Blackness: The albatross of an Identity built on Reaction

What were we before we were black?Blackness was constructed as an Antithesis to whiteness. Should we be studying blackness, should we be...

A time to Project and Pro-Act new images, sounds and Narratives? Black Detroit

I come from a school of thought that people gravitate towards that which is constantly projected before them. The Zezuru people in...

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Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda 

POVO Afrika · Pauline - Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda Just a girl in the world and you had to be...

Introduction to Nehanda Re-magined

The Nehanda Re-Imagined initiative is a project to revive and re-imagine depictions and the legacy of Mbuya Nehanda in their plurality and...

Let The Dead Die

That’s it, that’s my take on the Nehanda statue fallout or fall-in. Let’s let the dead die. Let me illustrate something, to...

Wigi yaMbuya Nehanda

Vamwe mai nemwanasikana wavo vasvika pandiri naSamora naNyerere Vanditarisa vachizvitora mapikicha, mai vati, “Nehanda bho here?” 

Charwe Nyakasikana (C. 1840 – 1898)

Charwe Nyakasikana is a Zezuru spirit medium who was born in 1840, in the Chishawasha District of Central Mashonaland. She was a...

POVOKonvo

The humble neophyte – POVOKonvo with Outspoken

POVO: So what was it like performing with the band for the first time? 
Outspoken: I have had...

Karien Cherry – Leaping the Limpopo

Emerging writer/director Karien Cherry is raising the bar for student filmmakers as she casts the spotlight on...

Hip Hop Beef in Zimbabwe – POVOKonvo with Black Bird

What is the main motivation of beef in Zimbabwe I think a lot of...

Thoughts on Zimbabwe – POVOKonvo with Hope Masike

What do you think of the current state of Zimbabwe?Hmmm I know my name is Hope and...

A Fascination with portraiture – POVOKonvo with Lawrence Nyemba

A brief backgroundI was born on 20 August, 1991 in Marondera town. The 5th child in a...

The birth of 3D animation in Zimbabwe – POVOKonvo with Nqobizitha Mlilo

POVO: Thanks for your time, can you give us a brief background about yourself
NQO: I have been an...

Hope The Musician – POVOKonvo with Hope Masike

Give us a bit of background about yourself, your music genre and how it all started.We began...

The future of Zimbabwe – POVOKonvo with Outspoken

POVO: what are your thoughts on the state of the nation and the future?OUT: I don't know where...

My league is in SAHipHop – POVOKOnvo with Slik Thug

True to the belief amongst many that everything is big and better in South Africa, many artists...

Art Residency in Zimbabwe – POVOKonvo with Xavier Robles de Medina

Xavier Robles de Medina is a Surinamese artist working in painting and sculpture. His sensibilities are deeply...
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Fashion in the Time of Cholera

I was asked to write this opinion piece on the fashion industry in Zimbabwe and all the predictable adjectives like fledgling and...

The Dreary, the Draconian & the Dues

A lot of the time I find I am asking myself, ‘Why the hell am I even trying this?’. Before I even...

The Real Backstage Story

A spotlight pierces the dark stage to focus on an elegant figure, cool, confident, alluring, alight, alive, adorned in a stunning creation...

Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda 

POVO Afrika · Pauline - Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda Just a girl in the world and you had to be...

Zimbabwe children’s games of the 90s – One Touch

This game is like one on one soccer which you are only allowed to make contact once with ball for each turn....

Zimbabwean Creating Pigments For Painting

I have been painting for over twelve years. Somehow I have become tired of using these conventional paints, oils and acrylics. So,...

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Hope The Musician – POVOKonvo with Hope Masike

Give us a bit of background about yourself, your music genre and how it all started.We began as a group of four permanent band members. Theresa plays recorder, Elijah on bass and Dunmore plays the Jembe. I...

A discourse on Hip Hop in Africa

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The humble neophyte – POVOKonvo with Outspoken

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Outspoken: I have had the band since 2007. It’s...

The Place Of Women Musicians In Zimbabwe

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Nehanda (Song)

POVO Afrika · Black Afro - Nehanda Zvakatangira pana Nyamhita, mwanasikana waMutapaMazuva avo ohushe waivazadza nemasimba kaKusvikira pana Charwe...

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Remembering Dambudziko

My first experience with spoken word was on local television from Albert Nyathi’s infamous Spoken word piece ‘Senzelina’. A few years later...

Jilted, Wilted

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Chii Chamuri Kuona? 

When l was creating the artwork l faced this problem- l didn’t know what Nehanda looked like. So l tried to find...

Zimbabwe National Anthem

Simudzai mureza wedu weZimbabwe, A song written by Professor Solomon Mutswairo and composed by Fred Changundega. After seeing Ras Dumisani "Massacre" the...

What’s in a Name?

You don’t define meYou can’t stall meYou don’t decide my worthYou can’t condemn meYou don’t confine meYou can’t try meYou don’t faze...

Babylon

A Bobo lion Babylon won’t give me a visa.Cause I'm a toi toi teacher prooza partistaAnti capitalista i'm the counter culture.Rooted in...
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Time to harvest the low-hanging fruit in Zimbabwe

THIS time last year, our agency, The Peoples Hub had been engaged to cater media and publicity work for a modelling event...

Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda 

POVO Afrika · Pauline - Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda Just a girl in the world and you had to be...

Hope The Musician – POVOKonvo with Hope Masike

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Nehanda (Song)

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When Opportunists Borrow The Faces Of Victims

A call to protect truth as fiercely as we protect the vulnerable. There is an American woman named Roda...

Discovering my life’s purpose and calling

Life doesn’t always turn out the way one envisions it. Sometimes it turns out for the best and sometimes, well not so...

A Trap called Blackness: The albatross of an Identity built on Reaction

What were we before we were black?Blackness was constructed as an Antithesis to whiteness. Should we be studying blackness, should we be...
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Bringing Down the Walls

Since time itself, walls were built to protect societies and their livestock from conflict with wild animals, potential aggressors and the liberties...

Evolution of the rhythmic speech of Rap

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The Midnight Hour

I am writing this at 12:39 PM at midnight, a moment of great clarity for me, when   I suddenly remember who I...

Who Says I Can‘t Code In Heels

It’s not a secret that the tech industry is male dominated and although it seems like more females are getting with the...

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Zimbabwe National Anthem

Simudzai mureza wedu weZimbabwe, A song written by Professor Solomon Mutswairo and composed by Fred Changundega. After seeing Ras Dumisani "Massacre" the...

Heart Art Paintings

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Holy?

I grew up in a Christian society that drew a thin invisible line that separated us from our ancestors, their form of...

Dear Husband

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