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CultureMichael Mupotaringa - November 14, 20250

When Opportunists Borrow The Faces Of Victims

A call to protect truth as fiercely as we protect the vulnerable. There is an American woman named Roda...

Nehanda Re-ImaginedTafadzwa Tarumbwa - June 20, 20220

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...

Fine ArtMudiwa Marasa - June 20, 20220

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...

LiteratureNyadzombe Nyampenza - June 20, 20220

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...

Women Speak!

WomanhoodPOVO Staff - June 3, 20190

African Women African Bodies

The 21st century has seen the increase of organisations, activists and individuals rising up against the society...

Culture

A Trap called Blackness: The albatross of an Identity built on Reaction

Masimba Hwati - December 17, 2016 0

What were we before we were black?Blackness was constructed as an Antithesis to whiteness. Should we be studying blackness, should we be...

Creativity

A time to Project and Pro-Act new images, sounds and Narratives? Black Detroit

Masimba Hwati - February 8, 2016 0

I come from a school of thought that people gravitate towards that which is constantly projected before them. The Zezuru people in...

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MusicPauline Gundidza - June 20, 20220

Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda

POVO Afrika · Pauline - Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda Just a girl in the world and you had to be...

Nehanda Re-Imagined

Introduction to Nehanda Re-magined

POVO Staff - June 20, 2022 0

The Nehanda Re-Imagined initiative is a project to revive and re-imagine depictions and the legacy of Mbuya Nehanda in their plurality and...

Nehanda Re-Imagined

Let The Dead Die

Ryan Chokureva - June 20, 2022 0

That’s it, that’s my take on the Nehanda statue fallout or fall-in. Let’s let the dead die. Let me illustrate something, to...

Nehanda Re-Imagined

Wigi yaMbuya Nehanda

Ignatius T. Mabasa - June 20, 2022 0

Vamwe mai nemwanasikana wavo vasvika pandiri naSamora naNyerere Vanditarisa vachizvitora mapikicha, mai vati, “Nehanda bho here?”

Nehanda Re-Imagined

Charwe Nyakasikana (C. 1840 – 1898)

Archibald Mathibela - June 20, 2022 0

Charwe Nyakasikana is a Zezuru spirit medium who was born in 1840, in the Chishawasha District of Central Mashonaland. She was a...

POVOKonvo

MusicKonvo Staff - February 3, 20100

Hope The Musician – POVOKonvo with Hope Masike

Give us a bit of background about yourself, your music genre and how it all started.We began...

POVOKonvoKonvo Staff - October 17, 20140

Talking Photography – POVOKonvo with Tamuka Mtengwa

What made you choose to study Fine Arts?Ha ha , its actually quite a common question.You will...

POVOKonvoKonvo Staff - March 23, 20110

The genesis – POVOKonvo with Edith WeUtonga

It is no wonder that Edith we Utonga is one of few musicians in very high demand...

POVOKonvoPOVO Staff - June 23, 20140

Tateguru Clothing and the freedom of expression

Dialogue with Tofirei Makinya and Tinashe Mabeza the creators of the Tateguru clothing brand. 

3D & AnimtionTafadzwa Tarumbwa - October 6, 20150

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...

POVOKonvoArchibald Mathibela - October 21, 20150

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...

3D & AnimtionKonvo Staff - July 17, 20100

Music is in my blood – POVOKonvo with Nqobizitha Mlilo

POVO: Tell us about Nqobizitha the musician NQO: I started my music career in form 3 with a rap...

POVOKonvoKonvo Staff - September 12, 20120

Cricket politics and development In Zimbabwe – POVOKonvo with Tinotenda Mawoyo

Can you give some insight as to the playing opportunities for those who haven't broken into the...

CreativityLinda Gabriel - December 14, 20160

State of Poetry in Zimbabwe

When I got onto the poetry scene around 2005, times were very exciting, there was some revolution...

FilmCecile Murray-Louw - May 14, 20140

Karien Cherry – Leaping the Limpopo

Emerging writer/director Karien Cherry is raising the bar for student filmmakers as she casts the spotlight on...

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3D & AnimtionNqobizitha Mlilo - October 13, 20140

Afrikan Animation, the Future Scrolls

THE MISSIONHere’s the problem we have. Culture is lost amongst modern day Afrikans. We are called Afrikans merely by geographic consideration and...

CultureEvelyn Roe - November 10, 20140

Modern Indigeny

In my early years as a botanist, I filled notebooks with measurements and observations, but felt no closer to the plants I...

PoetrySibusisiwe Zilawe - September 4, 20150

Painful Love / Cries of loneliness

Even surrounded by lifeLoneliness gropes at my throatI can't breathe because of the heavy emotion that seats very audiblyat the pit of...

FilmRudo Chakanyuka - October 6, 20140

Rumbi Katedza – State of the Zimbabwe Film Industry

The Zimbabwe film industry, is there movement, is there development do we still have a pulse?Rumbi: We definitely have a pulse, just sitting...

Hip HopKonvo Staff - May 28, 20100

The future of Zimbabwe – POVOKonvo with Outspoken

POVO: what are your thoughts on the state of the nation and the future?OUT: I don't know where the nation is going man,...

POVOKonvoKonvo Staff - September 16, 20140

Hip Hop Beef in Zimbabwe – POVOKonvo with Black Bird

What is the main motivation of beef in Zimbabwe I think a lot of what is happening in Zimbabwe...

Music

Time to harvest the low-hanging fruit in Zimbabwe

Henry Makiwa - July 13, 2014 0

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...

MusicPauline Gundidza - June 20, 20220

Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda

POVO Afrika · Pauline - Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda Just a girl in the world and you had to be...

MusicBlack Afro - June 19, 20220

Nehanda (Song)

POVO Afrika · Black Afro - Nehanda Zvakatangira pana Nyamhita, mwanasikana waMutapaMazuva avo ohushe waivazadza nemasimba kaKusvikira pana Charwe...

MusicKonvo Staff - February 3, 20100

Hope The Musician – POVOKonvo with Hope Masike

Give us a bit of background about yourself, your music genre and how it all started.We began as a group of four...

CultureAkala - September 20, 20110

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...

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SocietyEdith We Utonga - January 7, 20140

Keeping the faith

A few of months back,we discovered our five month old baby boy had a congenital heart defect which doctors diagnosed upon further...

SocietyZola Ndlovu - November 2, 20140

10 Warning Signs That You are a ‘90s Kid

For one thing, mother grew up long before Zimbabwe’s independence, for all of her childhood Zimbabwe didn’t even exist. Between my sisters...

PoetryKarolina Jeppson - August 6, 20150

Child Within

I have seen the world beginby women speakingtheir child within:I can do this, I can do thatI want this, I want thatI...

SocietyRudo Nyangulu - October 9, 20140

Telling her story…

My passion as a photographer is to collect and tell stories. In particular I love to tell stories about women, their joys,...

EnvironmentRaymond Muwaniri - November 6, 20150

25 ways for Zimbabweans to reduce their carbon footprint and bills

Every Zimbabwean is responsible for some amount of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere induced by our daily activities, known as...

LiteratureBarbra Anderson - June 16, 20220

Mai Vemwana

NehandaCharwe NyakasikanaIs a name l feel like l have knownFor ages,Or maybe forever! She is a woman,As l am...

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Music

MusicPauline Gundidza - June 20, 20220

Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda

POVO Afrika · Pauline - Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda Just a girl in the world and you had to be...

#16WomenVoicesPOVO Staff - December 27, 20210

#16WomenVoices – Black Afro

Tell us a bit about yourself My name is Sharleen Eunice Jirongo, also known as Black Afro. I was...

CultureAkala - September 20, 20110

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...

InterviewsPOVO Staff - December 23, 20210

#16WomenVoices – Mary Anibal

Who are you and Where are you from I'm Mary Anibal born and Bread in Harare, Zimbabwe on the...

Sport News

CultureMichael Mupotaringa - November 14, 20250

When Opportunists Borrow The Faces Of Victims

A call to protect truth as fiercely as we protect the vulnerable. There is an American woman named Roda...

SocietyOrlinda Mapa-Tsoka - May 19, 20200

Discovering my life’s purpose and calling

Life doesn’t always turn out the way one envisions it. Sometimes it turns out for the best and sometimes, well not so...

CultureMasimba Hwati - December 17, 20160

A Trap called Blackness: The albatross of an Identity built on Reaction

What were we before we were black?Blackness was constructed as an Antithesis to whiteness. Should we be studying blackness, should we be...

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Nehanda Re-ImaginedValerie Chatindo - June 20, 20220

Mai Vemwana

My children are slain!My children are slain!Ndafirwa nevana, yowe!She weeps as before her the desecrated bodies of her children lieCaught in the...

SocietyHarriet Mupungu - December 13, 20140

When am I just me?

For as long as I can remember, my mother has always been known as “Mai Berry”, Berry being my brother and her eldest...

Nehanda Re-ImaginedPOVO Staff - June 13, 20220

Nehanda Riddim

The Nehanda Riddim is a Zimbabwe dancehall compilation produced in December 2021. A riddim is an iunstrumental whereby various artists produce their...

UncategorizedRyan Chokureva - January 15, 20150

Learning to see the Light

Being a creative, photography was always going to be one of those fringe things I had to do. I had to understand...

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POVOKonvoBaynham Goredema - December 23, 20160

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