Farai Mudzingwa writes about the power vested within the four corners of the presidential portrait, and the struggle not only to dislodge the presidential image, but also to claim it, to frame it anew.
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P.A.S.S. HARARE
Whatever Zimbabwe is, and is becoming, already exists in the sound-worlds produced in the region.
P.A.S.S. HARARE
From 9 – 12 November, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) landed […]
Writing Nervous By Brian Chikwava
One can argue that great literary works are rarely about good sentences […]
The Invention of Zimbabwe: Chronic launch in Harare
This and other stories available in the new issue of […]
POETS WITH GUNS: A CONVERSATION WITH CHIRIKURE CHIRIKURE
Chirikure Chirikure means “that which is far is very far.” He is […]
PASS in Harare
From 9 – 12 November, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) landed […]
Home Means Nothing to Me
Tinashe Mushakavanhu talks about his mapping project, “Home Means Nothing to Me,” […]
OF TOTEMS, HISTORY AND POLITICS
In Shona cosmology, people are understood to be more than the sum […]
THINKING TOO MUCH
Silence and dark humour seem like the most authentic way for people […]
SUNGURA STORIES
Ranga Mberi travels back in musical time to the 1980s and 1990s, […]
PORTRAIT OF MYSELF AS MY FATHER
A CONVERSATION WITH NORA CHIPAUMIRE Born in Mutare, Zimbabwe, and based in New […]
NONE BUT OURSELVES
By Chimurenga on April 9, 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Featured, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The history of reggae in Zimbabwe echoes far beyond Bob Marley’s historic […]
THE WAY I SEE IT – National Heroes Acre I
Bongani Kona Who or what haunts you? Do recurrences draw you back […]
MILKING A DYING COW
Zimbabwe’s economic crises have played out in the press, in political and […]
ARMY ARRANGEMENT
News of President Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s imminent ouster from office continues to […]
In Bond We Trust?
Nearly a decade on from the worst postcolonial turmoil that saw their currency devalued by thousands of percentage points, Zimbabweans have had to brace themselves as the government introduced another face-saving tender.