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In the aftermath of an eventful Black History Month and in the midst Women's History Month, Chimurenga Renaissance's "Girlz With Gunz" feels incredibly appropriate for the time in which it was ...
maize production has gone down from 2 million tonnes three years ago to a paltry 70 000 tonnes today; soya bean harvests of 162 000 tonnes per year before the start of this chimurenga have now ...
Dubbed Chimurenga, which means “revolutionary struggle” in Zimbabwe’s Shona language, Edjabe’s creation is an award-winning, pan African literary magazine that addresses and embraces the ...
Chimurenga’s ever-fabulous pan-African gazette, Chronic, has gone graphic with a focus on African graphic stories. The latest edition celebrates African comic journalism, and how it’s been able to ...
and multi-instrumentalist Baba Maraire — have joined up with Hussein Kalonji to form a new trio called Chimurenga Renaissance. Their debut album riZe vadZimu riZe is coming next month ...
And both have inspired a range of musicians both within and distant from their homeland. Mapfumo's music has been termed "chimurenga," from the Shona word for "struggle." He spent prison time for ...
The Chimurenga Library, a virtual and actual reimagining of the library conceived by the quarterly journal will, among other things, stage live broadcasts of the Pan African Space Station (PASS ...
CHIMURENGA music still has a place on the local music scene and will not fade, one of Thomas Mapfumo’s former runners, Jairos Chabvonga has said. Speaking to NewsDay during the Independence Day ...
LEGENDARY Chimurenga musician and pioneer Thomas “Mukanya” Mapfumo says the current crop of Chimurenga artistes has a mammoth task of preserving the genre by being original. Mupfumo’s ...
Dubbed Chimurenga, which means "revolutionary struggle" in Zimbabwe's Shona language, Edjabe's creation is an award-winning, pan African literary magazine that addresses and embraces the continent ...