HARARE – Local music promoters are forging partnerships with their counterparts in other countries in a bid to get the necessary foreign currency to bring international artistes to Zimbabwe. Due to the shortage of foreign currency in the country as a result of economic challenges the nation has been experiencing for decades, the Reserve Bank…
HARARE – Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo, who has not set foot in Zimbabwe for over a decade, says he is homesick. Mukanya, as the music legend is widely known by his fans, is based in Oregon in the United States of America where he has lived in exile since 2004. On the occasion of…
HARARE – Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo has fired barbs at government initiated Command Agriculture programme saying the programme has brewed the ongoing tiff between senior government officials. The $500 million scheme was initiated by government at the start of last year in a bid to generate food self-sufficiency. President Robert Mugabe is on record…
HARARE – More than 10 traditional groups are expected to clash in the Bulawayo Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance Festival provincial contest to be held at Manor Hotel in Bulawayo tomorrow. Sekunjalo maAfrica were winners of last year’s edition of the provincial contest which was hosted by Habane Bar in Esigodini. They represented Bulawayo at the…
HARARE – Former education minister, Aeneas Chigwedere, is widely regarded as a hard-nosed traditionalist steeped in African cultural norms. The case currently at the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe in which Chigwedere is being accused of witchcraft by his son, has further reinforced the perception that the ex-education minister is still stuck in old-world culture. It…
HARARE – Superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi has been included in the new National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (Nacz) board which was appointed by minister of Rural Development, Promotion and Preservation of National Culture and Heritage Abednico Ncube yesterday. The board will be chaired by former Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Great Zimbabwe University Herbert Chimhundu. Other…
HARARE – Talented vocalist and guitarist Alick Macheso is arguably the best selling sungura musician of our time. The 49-year-old singer is not just famed for the way he strums his bass guitar, but for his music extolling the virtues of good marriages and promoting oneness among families. For the record, Macheso is the only…
HARARE – Local music star Jah Prayzah’s two-day tour of Canada which was scheduled to kick-off on July 1 failed to materialise amid allegations that the promoter of the event bungled the Zimbabwean star’s travel arrangements. Jah Prayzah was set to perform in Toronto on Canada Day which falls on July 1 and in Edmonton…
HARARE – Jamaican reggae star Busy Signal has confirmed his second tour of Zimbabwe which will take place early next month. Busy Signal, who held his maiden performance in Harare in 2015 at the Glamis Arena, will kick-start the tour at the Large City Hall in Bulawayo on August 4 where he will share the…
HARARE – Congolese chanter and Utakataka Express member Gift “Shiga Shiga” Katulika will unveil his second solo studio album Basa Ndakapihwa which features controversial Zimdancehall artiste Soul Jah Love on Wednesday at City Sports Bar in the capital, Harare. Katulika, who is a rhumba and sungura artiste, said the fusion of the genre with Soul…
