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Percy Zvomuya is a writer and critic who has written for numerous publications, including Chimurenga, the Mail & Guardian, Moto in Zimbabwe, the Sunday Times and the London Review of Books blog. He is a co-founder of Johannesburg-based writing collective The Con and, in 2014, was one of the judges for the Caine Prize for African Writing.
The underground operator of Zimbabwean art — who is ‘present and confident — but not loud’
Bass culture is as old as Zimbabwe itself
The search for an elusive West African writer accused of plagiarism comes full circle
A whole book written in a single sentence? Author challenges with both style and content
Imraan Coovadia’s new book connects the programmes of poisoning in Rhodesia and South Africa in five essays about the circumstances and men at the centre of their making
Dambudzo Marechera continues to nourish Zimbabweans’ cultural lives — and literary tourists from northern climes
How Shona stone art came into its own after independence
The photographer got his first big break touring with The Wailers in the 1970s, after skipping school to meet the band
Reinaldo Arenas’s memoir reveals the contradiction of a revolutionary society ruled by an autocrat
Sixty years after the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the DRC’s first prime minister, his remains will be returned from Belgium
The 2020 winner of the PEN Pinter Prize, LKJ’s poetry puts the ignominy and hardship of the black experience in Britain front and centre in words that echo across the decades
Drummers have the power to allow Zimbabweans to commune with their ancestors, and none more so than those with elevated talent on the skins.
The collaboration between Thomas Mapfumo and Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, broke new ground and should have grown cult status
The iconic concert to celebrate independence in Zimbabwe would prove to contain a warning
A snapshot of musical moments (and mishaps) as they intersected with Zimbabwe throughout the decades.
The country’s elites can no longer jet away to overseas health facilities and must now face the hospital system that could not help Zororo Makamba, a 30-year-old who died of the…
When two congregants drowned in a dam near Mhondoro village in Zimbabwe, it was said the men had transgressed the covenant the church had with the shrine’s guardian spirits
Journalist and Tiro’s nephew Gaongalelwe gives us a glimpse into the young firebrand’s life.
Robert Mugabe was once a fervent pan-Africanist, but he failed to act like one after he came to power
The country’s second fuel increase since December makes petrol in Zimbabwe the most expensive in the world
