Hip Hop

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 have chosen to cross the border into this land of imagined milk and honey. Some have made it, some are...

An Afrikan Woman in Hip-Hop

Women living in modern day Afrika are constantly embroiled in the ongoing battle for equality and acceptance. Despite the growing number of women being employed in the various professions, Afrikan women in the arts still face a...

Whats Beef? – POVOKonvo with Kuda Musasiwa

What is the main motivation of beef in Zimbabwe? Nil. There is no real beef at all. Does beef play a role in Hip-hop, is it a necessary stage of the development of...

Beef in Zimbabwe Hip Hop?

(We picked up this rant from mUnetsi on twitter in regards to the supposed Beef going on in the Zimbabwe Hip Hop industry) In my experiences sometimes beef is fanned by folk who have...

The Longest Freestyle – Zimbabwe

mUsain Bolt - The longest freestyle by a Zimbabwean rapper weighing in at 59mins - 22sec. Its fitting that title is carried by Zimbabwe / African  lyrical heavy weight mUnetsi. Ironically titled mUsain Bolt but its anything...

The assassination of hip hop

There was a stage when hip hop lived, thriving in the streets, in the spirits of the ghetto children, embedded in veins and souls, just like the blues used to be to plantation slaves. There was a...

Zimbabwean Hip-Hop under Attack!

My take on the recent Lil Kim, Fat Joe and Ciara show in Harare is probably one sided, but it's a side that many people share with me. I am a Zimbabwean hip-hop artist who puts on...

Evolution of the rhythmic speech of Rap

The evolution of the rhythmic speech really of hip hop, of rapping again we have to understand that when Africans went to America and to the Caribbean and to Brazil South America, it was like in Jamaica...

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...

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...
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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...