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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

POVOKonvoKonvo Staff - September 5, 20120

Zimbabwe crickets opening batsmen – POVOKonvo with Tinotenda Mawoyo

We had the privelege of talking to Tinotenda Mawoyo, Zimbabwe crickets' opening batsmen. He agreed to answer...

CreativityKonvo Staff - July 6, 20100

The State of the Nation – POVOKonvo with Masimba Hwati

We are stitting at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe where we will be talking to Masimba Hwati...

POVOKonvoSabina Seldon - November 27, 20140

Alice Tavaya – In the Wonderland of Photography

“There is a beauty in decay,” she says. Perhaps it has something to do with the way...

3D & AnimtionKonvo Staff - July 18, 20100

The birth of 3D animation in Zimbabwe – POVOKonvo with Nqobizitha Mlilo

POVO: Thanks for your time, can you give us a brief background about yourself NQO: I have been an...

POVOKonvoTafadzwa Gutsa - September 22, 20150

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...

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. 

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...

POVOKonvoKonvo Staff - September 5, 20120

Captaining Zimbabwe – POVOKonvo with Tinotenda Mawoyo

Do you fancy yourself as a future captain of the Test team? - @ThatDarkChildYes I do.

3D & AnimtionKonvo Staff - August 9, 20100

Ambivalence Society – POVOKonvo with Tafadzwa Tarumbwa

The first of a two part series of interviews with Tafadzwa Tarumbwa as he talks about about ...

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...

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CulturePOVO Staff - September 10, 20090

The original POVO Booklet

Chanetsa Mukahanana - The forewordRenaissance painters studied each other’s' work right down to the brushstroke; great writers read works of past and current...

Fine ArtMasimba Hwati - July 14, 20130

The Business of Art

Art like any other business is subject to the market. Usually, the market determines what is made. So, there are trends in...

PoetryRutendo Mutsamwira - November 27, 20150

Jacarandas & Sunsets

A meandering conversation left me feeling antsy, confused, and exposed and all forms of upset… But still that couldn’t...

SocietyTatenda Kanengoni - February 23, 20150

The complexity of race and colour relations in modern society

Recently, my friends and I had a conversation about slavery. Imagine growing up in an era where you are saleable and consequently...

Fine ArtMarjorie Wallace - April 3, 20150

Zimbabwean ceramic designer

Born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and studied at Michealis School of Fine Art in Cape Town. Taught in various schools and the Harare...

SocietyDesmond Munemo - July 24, 20140

San’bonani

It is given that human beings, in one way or the other, adhere to a certain pattern of norms and values, commonly...

Music

Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda

Pauline Gundidza - June 20, 2022 0

POVO Afrika · Pauline - Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda Just a girl in the world and you had to be strong, a warrior, a woman.To be queen in the home and the queen on the...

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...

MusicRaven Duchess - June 15, 20220

Nehanda

POVO Afrika · Raven Duchess - Nehanda Hmmm Haaa Hmmm haaa Ancient one spirit spirit whisperer

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...

MusicBatsirai Chigama - September 12, 20160

The Place Of Women Musicians In Zimbabwe

After a recent debate sparked by Tinashe Mutero’s article, “Is there a place for women among Zimbabwe’s Big Five,” this question may...

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LiteratureValerie Chatindo - June 19, 20220

Mother Of A Nation

The sun-scorched on relentlessly, making the entire savannah a mirage. Shapes fabricated by the heat dancing to and fro. She shades her...

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 in Zimbabwe today. A female...

WomanhoodSophia Chitemere - October 22, 20140

Breaking The Silence

Many people say silence is golden; well, I am not many people. Always forcing yourself, to be silent because of fear? The...

SocietyKay Terera - February 6, 20160

My Natural Resources

So, what’s the story with your hair? I hear that question a lot so, forget history, today I am going to share...

SocietyStephanie Kapfunde - August 2, 20150

The Afrikan Arts, Something to Enthuse over!

For the longest of times I have, like so many others, sat back and endured the telling of borrowed and reconstructed narratives....

SocietyNancy Munyi - June 11, 20150

Combating dyslexia in Kenya

Amazing discoveryIn 2000, my five year old son joined pre-unit, his teacher happened to be his mother. He was a fine and...

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Music

#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...

MusicHenry Makiwa - July 13, 20140

Time to harvest the low-hanging fruit in Zimbabwe

THIS time last year, our agency, The Peoples Hub had been engaged to cater media and publicity work for a modelling event...

CultureAkala - September 12, 20110

A discourse on Hip Hop in Africa

Living in London, I suppose my view of hip hop is skewed differently. The way hip hop was born in the Bronx...

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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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...

PoetryMasimba Biriwashe - March 4, 20100

O, Zimbabwe!

Let Zimbabwe be Zimbabwe againLet her flame-lilies come to full bloomAnd sway in the sun O, how Zimbabwe staggers,...

UncategorizedJane Shepherd - December 3, 20140

Making a Difference and Making a Living

Eight years ago I left the marketing company where I was working as a design sausage machine – cranking out fliers and...

Fine ArtPaul Maposa - June 20, 20220

The Calling Of A Warrior

From an early age, Nehanda would have shown signs of the gift of a warrior she was to become. In the way...

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PoetryOrpatience Muringai - March 16, 20140

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