Creativity

State of Poetry in Zimbabwe

When I got onto the poetry scene around 2005, times were very exciting, there was some revolution going on so we were more like comrades doing our poetry for a cause, we wanted our voices to 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 Zimbabwean culture as in most cultures on the Afrikan Continent are primarily and a profoundly...

Another Case of Lazy Creatives

Madness is trending around the world, from planes disappearing to Ebola epidemic and now this…#WearADoek Campaign! The South Afrikan department of arts and culture have created the “wear a doek” campaign, urging all South...

Zimbabwe in Cultural Transition

The history of Zimbabwean visual culture is a complex journey from ancestral the acres to morden day and futuristic times. This history is punctuated by dramatic transformations and redefinition of values. The visual culture of this nation...

A Thousand Icons on a cultural desktop

Definitions1) A relative aura that exists around objects, has an ability to evoke memories and trigger emotion and thought through visual interaction.2) The visual ability of an object to stimulate3) An Intuitive stimuli force generated by objects...

The State of the Nation – POVOKonvo with Masimba Hwati

We are stitting at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe where we will be talking to Masimba Hwati about his work. Hi Masimba, how are you doing?I am okay thank you very much. I...
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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...
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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...