Perhaps its time Afrika stopped harping about Ubuntu and took a critical look at herself before she begins to mend what has become broken. That may sound harsh but we have good reason to consider it.
In my early years as a botanist, I filled notebooks with measurements and observations, but felt no closer to the plants I was studying. Scientific methodologies, while producing many fascinating facts, do not provide a bridge between...
Below is a full transcript of Uncle Ritchie’s First Zviri kumbofamba sei skit (Transcribed by Rumbidzai Dube)
Unotoona vamwe vachitogerwa zuda mumabutcher (You see people getting haircuts in butcheries)Vamwe vachitoseka (While others are laughing)Wotonzwa vamwe…vamwe…vachitochema (Then you hear...
Zimbabwe has state lands which the government is responsible for and communal lands in rural areas where traditional leaders are responsible. These traditional leaders include the Chief at the top of the hierarchy followed by the Headman...
Attention Prof. Jonathan Moyo, other art forms need your attention too.
The new cabinet posting in the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services was received with a lot of aplomb and applause. This...
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...
In the Shona cycle of life every stage is marked by a ritual. In some of these rituals the energy of objects is clearly illustrated. We will explore some of these rituals in detail.
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...
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...
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...
