Maongororo
Maongororo ano gutsa meso senhumbu
Ndino ona maruva kutumbuka pamuti
Usina pfumvudza, kuti mwacha zidzumbu
Hwema huno tasva mhepo kuenda rwendo
Igwezvo kushiri nenyuchi, kwandiri paditi
Idonhodzo ndofunga shupiko renge hondo
Muchini unopipidza, wada kuti ndiongorore
Kundidzora ndigadzirise pasave nengozi pakati
Inozondi tevera kwandinoenda sendine chakaorera
Kuzeya kwaunoita muti mumhepo, turuva tuchidonha
Ndinonzwa uteta mumuviri, makore afuga makuti
Ndaataya ndirikure nepadare, ndiri kuno kumatonho
Muti uchaita muchero, uchadyiwa nevachauona
Ini chasara kukushumuka, ndoorera ndove sauti
Pakashaya ano paradza, pachava ne chekuona.
Farai Madzimbamuto
Hope’s songs of redemption
The Making of a Unique Band
“By the rivers of Babylon I sat and wept,” thus sang the long- suffering Hebrews in their time of Babylonian captivity. They found themselves singing God’s song in a strange land. But though the song speaks of tears, it is actually a song of hope and redemption. The very act of singing it meant that the singers had in actual fact symbolically freed themselves. And, in these turbulent times we live in, we need songs and singers with enormous emotional power that can heal our grief, assuage our anxieties and allow us to hope for a better future. Hope Masike neKakuwe have it in them to do just this and more.
Hope, second from left, and members of Kakuwe
The dream and vision to form Kakuwe was born long before Hope decided to enrol at the Zimbabwe College of Music. Born with music in her blood, an independent feisty spirit, Hope was always someone who marched to a different drum, and so it was not surprising that when she decided to take her music seriously, she wanted to form a unique band with a different sound. Read more
If we did it once, we can do it again…but when?
“If not now, then when?” Echoes from a plaintive Tracy Chapman song, if my memory serves me right. But the mind is numbed by a vicious summer flu (as well as age, I guess), so I can’t be certain. But that line finds resonance as deadlocks continue, Troikas defer crucial meetings- all because there was an apparent hide and seek shenanigan with travel documents…If a small country like Zimbabwe can’t make agreements work, what more the grand dreams of SADC, AU and Pan Africanism? Read more
On The Zimbo Jam- Zimbabwean Film Wins Zanzibar Film Festival AwardShungu, a film by renowned Zimbabwean graphic artist, Saki Mafundikwa, has won the Sembène Ousmane Award at the recently ended Zanzibar International Film Festival.
- Zimbabwe Fashion Week Revs it Up on Second DayThings picked up pace on the second day of Zimbabwe Fashion Week, Thursday July 29, with four young designers showcasing their work. A show scheduled for the afternoon was cancelled so that a bigger show, featuring more designers could be held in the evening.
- The 5 Corniest Things Guys Have Ever Said to MeStarting this week The Zimbo Jam brings you "Teurai's Lists", a weekly column by Australian based Zimbabwean model Teurai Chanakira. Teurai will bring you lists of things that we all relate to as Zimbos, lists that will make you think, lists that will make you laugh and lists that will remind you that life is one long, er, list.
- Zimbabwean Film Wins Zanzibar Film Festival Award