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Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda 

POVO Afrika · Pauline - Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda Just a girl in the world and you had to be strong, a warrior, a woman.To be queen in the home and the queen on the...

Nehanda (Song)

POVO Afrika · Black Afro - Nehanda Zvakatangira pana Nyamhita, mwanasikana waMutapaMazuva avo ohushe waivazadza nemasimba kaKusvikira pana Charwe uyo akava neruzivo rukuruNehanda nyakasikana, waifamba uri mavariUchivaratidza gwara rakanaka rokufamba naro

Nehanda

POVO Afrika · Raven Duchess - Nehanda Hmmm Haaa Hmmm haaa  Ancient one spirit spirit whisperer  Lead your people lead your people Wise one spirit...

#16WomenVoices – Black Afro

Tell us a bit about yourself My name is Sharleen Eunice Jirongo, also known as Black Afro.  I was born on the 19th of October 1995 in Masvingo, grew up in Harare with my...

#16WomenVoices – Mary Anibal

Who are you and Where are you from I'm Mary Anibal born and Bread in Harare, Zimbabwe on the 30th of January 2000. I am a student at Music Crossroads Academy Zimbabwe studying music,...

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 well be put to rest as the women artists seem to have decided their success...

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 in central London. I was covering the gig when I ran into a young man...

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...

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 easier to work with a live band because you are working with live emotions. I...
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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...
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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...

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...