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...

Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda 

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

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 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...

Kuchava riniko…?

Nguva zhinji ndinozvibvunza kuti, “Kuchava rini kuti uvaranomwe hweShona huwane kusununguka”. Mukuramba ndichizvibvunza mubvunzo uyu, ndinoona kuti handisini ndoga ndine dambudziko rimwe...

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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...

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...

POVOKonvo

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...

Aura – Influence of Technology in the arts

Tafadzwa Tarumbwa takes a few minutes to talk to Aura Tha Poet Who is...

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...

Kuda Musasiwa – Whats Beef?

What is the main motivation of beef in Zimbabwe? Nil. There is no real...

Tinotenda Mawoyo – Captaining Zimbabwe

Do you fancy yourself as a future captain of the Test team? - @ThatDarkChildYes I do.

Tinotenda Mawoyo – Zimbabwe crickets opening batsmen

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

Ntsiki Mazwai – No Taboos and Sacred Cows

Ntsiki Mazwai is a talented and versatile artist, whose interests span across an impressive creative spectrum of...

Finton – Taking on Europe with his Guitar

Tell us about your background and how you entered into the music business?I grew up in Mutare,...

Tafadzwa Tarumbwa – Future of animation in Zimbabwe

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

The genesis – POVOKonvo with Edith WeUtonga

It is no wonder that Edith we Utonga is one of few musicians in very high demand...
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Words In The Wind

They travelled in the wind,Words so sacred the earth could barely hold them,Whispers echoing in ancient caves and secret dwelling places.She breathes...

Beware of taking the historical context out of hip hop

What we've got to be very careful as hip hop artists is that we don’t allow rap to held as a scapegoat...

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...

Lest we forget

Lest we forget, lest we ever forget,That within us soldiers lay,Lest we ever have the propensity to forget so easily our historyThat...

Guilty Until I Prove Myself Innocent

There is a place where the earth is red, from swallowing too much blood, from being watered by it. There is a...

Africa Now

There is something distinctly unreal about Africa in the way the continent was portrayed in TV shows I used to watch as...

Music

Beware of taking the historical context out of hip hop

What we've got to be very careful as hip hop artists is that we don’t allow rap to held as a scapegoat by society. What I mean by that is, yeah there is some very negative hip...

Nehanda

POVO Afrika · Raven Duchess - Nehanda Hmmm Haaa Hmmm haaa  Ancient one spirit spirit whisperer 

The humble neophyte – POVOKonvo with Outspoken

POVO: So what was it like performing with the band for the first time? 
Outspoken: I have had the band since 2007. It’s...

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 the album is even titled...

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...

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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...

Wigi yaMbuya Nehanda

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

Elsa Q – The rise

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

The Error of Human Evolution

The Error of Human EvolutionOur infatuation is fluctuatingCrippling our perspectivesShadowing our visionOn every crucial aspectWe recycle and re-circle encircled conceptsLoosing fundamental frameworksOur...

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...

Aura – Influence of Technology in the arts

Tafadzwa Tarumbwa takes a few minutes to talk to Aura Tha Poet Who is AuraAura: I am a poet, voice...
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Music

#16WomenVoices – Mary Anibal

Who are you and Where are you from I'm Mary Anibal born and Bread in Harare, Zimbabwe on the...

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 the album is even titled...

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...

Nehanda (Song)

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

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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...

Daughter of a Sangoma

For many in Africa, traditional healers are trusted advisors on matters of the body, mind and spirit although in most parts are...
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These Gates

The gates that keep me from seeing the back of my television set,The gates that keep me from seeing the back of...

Corporate Social Responsibility in Zimbabwean business

However, the challenge still remains that of most Zimbabwean owned firms to reach this level of social service and transcend the spirit...

HIFA 2013 – Engage!

Despite this year’s HIFA theme being titled Engage, nothing could be further from the stated objective. The low audience turnout and entertainers...

Zimbabwe children’s games of the 90s – Raka Raka

Raka Raka is a game of elimination where you have two teams where X represents one team and the dot the...

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Pan-Afrikan Expatriates on the Afrikan Continent

By the time I got into the Business Class lounge at Johannesburg to catch the SAA flight in to Lagos, I knew...

Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda 

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

Africa day: The story of how a continent fell off the horse

In its inception the AU was a fit for purpose, a revolutionary oasis for all Africans in the struggle for self-determination. As...

Mafriq and Xtra Large – Influence of music in Zimbabwe

In the quest to find out what Zimbabwean 'yute' is up to and how it is contributing to the socio-political landscape, we...