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...

Women Speak!

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

State of Poetry in Zimbabwe

When I got onto the poetry scene around 2005, times were very exciting, there was some revolution...

Appreciation of the spoken word in Zimbabwe – POVOKonvo with Outspoken

This is the first in a series of three dialogues with one of Zimbabwe’s illustrious MCs Outspoken.



Elsa Q – The rise

TT: Can you start by introducing yourself?EQ: My name is Elsa Kamsoda. I am a Poet / Musician...

Zimbabwean blues & neo-soul musician – POVOKonvo with Raven Duchess

Tell us a bit about your history, (Where you are from, family, highlights outside of music)Born and...

Nontsikelelo Mutiti – Hair braiding as Art

When did you first become interested in hair? How did this manifest itself?I moved to New Haven,...

The humble neophyte – POVOKonvo with Outspoken

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

Rudo Chasi – The Journey of a Songstress

Tell us about yourself. Who is Rudo Chasi and her journey so far?I was born and raised in...

Alice Tavaya – In the Wonderland of Photography

“There is a beauty in decay,” she says. Perhaps it has something to do with the way...

Talking Photography – POVOKonvo with Tamuka Mtengwa

What made you choose to study Fine Arts?Ha ha , its actually quite a common question.You will...

Future of animation in Zimbabwe – POVOKonvo with Tafadzwa Tarumbwa

POVO: How does it take you to complete a 30 second advert? 
TAF: because of time constraints and...
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Talking Photography – POVOKonvo with Tamuka Mtengwa

What made you choose to study Fine Arts?Ha ha , its actually quite a common question.You will be surprised to know that...

The beautiful one that pleases my heart

Towera, meaining 'the beautiful one that pleases my heart.’As I gazed into the beautiful brown eyes of my five week old daughter...

Graphic Designers in Zimbabwe

The design industry in Zimbabwe, maybe the world over, is probably the single most under-rated profession historically. Zimbabwe’s multi-faceted economy revolves around...

Combating dyslexia in Kenya

Amazing discoveryIn 2000, my five year old son joined pre-unit, his teacher happened to be his mother. He was a fine and...

Telling her story…

My passion as a photographer is to collect and tell stories. In particular I love to tell stories about women, their joys,...

A Love letter to Zimbabwe

Oh, Zimbabwe! Country of my heart! I don’t know anymore where I stand with you. Could you ever love me like I...

Music

A discourse on Hip Hop in Africa

Living in London, I suppose my view of hip hop is skewed differently. The way hip hop was born in the Bronx is a mix of a very long tradition of Latino and African American poetry by...

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...

The Place Of Women Musicians In Zimbabwe

After a recent debate sparked by Tinashe Mutero’s article, “Is there a place for women among Zimbabwe’s Big Five,” this question may...

A discourse on Hip Hop in Africa

Living in London, I suppose my view of hip hop is skewed differently. The way hip hop was born in the Bronx...

#16WomenVoices – Black Afro

Tell us a bit about yourself My name is Sharleen Eunice Jirongo, also known as Black Afro.  I was...

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Zimbabwe crickets opening batsmen – POVOKonvo with Tinotenda Mawoyo

We had the privelege of talking to Tinotenda Mawoyo, Zimbabwe crickets' opening batsmen. He agreed to answer question from fans from the Cricket...

Music and Piracy in Zimbabwe

Nowadays any musician in Zimbabwe can launch or release their music. Really? The question is what happens after the release? The hard...

The Jetlag Inyathuko Travelogue series – Sharing experiences

Njelele Art Station is an eclectic, Bohemian rhapsody of sorts neatly tucked away from the hustle and bustle of central Harare city’s downtown...

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...

Fall and rise as a team…woman!

The invite said shorts and shades, girls only and promised to be fun as I got the call from my girlfriend insisting...

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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Music

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...

A discourse on Hip Hop in Africa

Living in London, I suppose my view of hip hop is skewed differently. The way hip hop was born in the Bronx...

#16WomenVoices – Black Afro

Tell us a bit about yourself My name is Sharleen Eunice Jirongo, also known as Black Afro.  I was...

The Place Of Women Musicians In Zimbabwe

After a recent debate sparked by Tinashe Mutero’s article, “Is there a place for women among Zimbabwe’s Big Five,” this question may...

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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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Conquering Kilimanjaro

I love mountains! I always have. I remember well growing up, when we would go kumusha, our village in Nerwande, Rusape on...

Stranger in Berlin

The first thing that strikes me about Berlin, is how the people dress. I have memories of my older sister, in her...

The Heroine Footprints

Mbuya Nehanda struggled and lived a poor life for us to have peace and prosperity. She had a calling, she had a...

My Journey into Photography

I have always enjoyed photography, but never really thought more of it beyond being able to capture memories. My mother and sister...

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God Bless Our Men a prayer for Afrika’s Sons

Let God grant us freedom from pecuniary chainsLest our children thirst though this land is fatLet God shine her generosity and help...

Future of animation in Zimbabwe – POVOKonvo with Tafadzwa Tarumbwa

POVO: How does it take you to complete a 30 second advert? 
TAF: because of time constraints and the simplicity in some of...

Nontsikelelo Mutiti – Hair braiding as Art

When did you first become interested in hair? How did this manifest itself?I moved to New Haven, Connecticut for graduate school in...

Finding Myself

I am at a stage in my life when I need more meaning. The statement that my life has to be worth...