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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 family of six, I attended R.G Mugabe before being transferred to Godfrey Huggins primary school through the influence of people...

Never Lundu – Zimbabwe Cricket’s Bat Doctor

The Beginning I was born in Chitungwiza in 1991 and that’s where I live. I started playing cricket when I was in Grade 3 at Seke 6 Primary School. I stopped playing cricket for...

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...

Ntsiki Mazwai – No Taboos and Sacred Cows

Ntsiki Mazwai is a talented and versatile artist, whose interests span across an impressive creative spectrum of poetry, drama, bead work, music and social activism. At this years Grahamstown Arts Festival (2016), Ntsiki Mazwai...

Art Residency in Zimbabwe – POVOKonvo with Xavier Robles de Medina

Xavier Robles de Medina is a Surinamese artist working in painting and sculpture. His sensibilities are deeply rooted in an observational drawing practice as well as an objective dissection of the painting as a three-dimensional object. He...

Rudo Chasi – The Journey of a Songstress

Tell us about yourself. Who is Rudo Chasi and her journey so far?I was born and raised in Harare  Zimbabwe on the 6th of march in 1988 and I come from a family of two children that is...

Tinodiwa Makoni – ComExposed, a new platform for comic books

What is ComExposedEM: ComExposed is an organisation we founded together to promote comic books and help out the comic book artists, and bring them together to the rest of the world, the general public and the corporate world....

Slik Thug – My league is in SAHipHop

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...

Tafadzwa Gutsa – Pioneering Industrial Design in Zimbabwe

You say industrial Design is unknown in Zimbabwe. Can you explain what it involves?Well, at its most basic, Industrial Design involves the design of products that serve a particular function from concepts, manufacturing through to usage and...

Alice Tavaya – In the Wonderland of Photography

“There is a beauty in decay,” she says. Perhaps it has something to do with the way one sees but I am not so sure. “My attraction is two- fold,” she tells me. “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...