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Redemption song: Bob Marley on stage during the Viva Zimbabwe independence celebrations at Rufaro Stadium, Salisbury (later Harare), Zimbabwe, on 18 April 1980. Photo: William Campbell/Getty Images
1980 INDEPENDENCE

Songs of freedom in a dancehall in Zimbabwe

Bass culture is as old as Zimbabwe itself

  • Percy Zvomuya
5 min read
The trend is to provide consumers with rich content and to act on the message with the minimum of effort.
EMMERSON MNANGAGWA

End of a tyranny

Geoffrey Nyarota takes us from Mugabe’s beginnings to his fall from grace, while Ray Ndlovu has the inside story of how Mnangagwa rose to power

  • Shaun De Waal
3 min read
Photographer Zanele Muholi’s new book of portraits gives visual voice to the plight of ‘queer’ black women.
CECIL JOHN RHODES

Old-world diction, flawed punditry and the fight for Zimbabwe’s future

The single greatest failure of current punditry is the refusal to recognise that context matters.

  • Peter Vale
4 min read