Arts & Culture

INTERVIEW: Zimbabwean filmmaker Tapiwa Chipfupa wins international award

By culturecustodian.com Zimbabwean director and producer, Tapiwa Chipfupa and her film initiative Audiovisual Entrepreneurs Laboratory (AVEL), were awarded the coveted Berlinale
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University of Cambridge urged to help locate looted Zimbabwean skulls

By Agencies Zimbabwean descendants of the chimurenga heroes, freedom fighters who led an uprising against British colonial rule in the 1890s, have
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Dambudzo Marechera’s voice is on Facebook, and 33,000 people are listening

By Agencies A Facebook page dedicated to Dambudzo Marechera has been running for years and has built a following of
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Zimbabwean artist Option Nyahunzvi explores cultural values in a bold new exhibition

Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti, Rice University In Zimbabwe, hunhu is a cultural belief system that instructs us to embrace our neighbours,
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Kenyan barber who wields a sharpened shovel thrives on Africa’s social media craze

By Associated Press KIAMBU: Safari Martins leads his client Ian Njenga into a sparse shack on the rural roadside in
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ENIFF 2025: Jessica J. Rowlands Puts Zimbabwean Cinema on the Map with “Rise”

By Joseph Jonathan There’s a particular kind of film that doesn’t announce itself with spectacle but settles into you quietly,
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CANADA: Francisca Mandeya discusses her risky life as an mbira player; ‘I needed to get

By nunatsiaq.com At times of despair, Francisca Mandeya always has an answer. Mbira. The Zimbabwean traditional instrument looks like a
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BERLIN: Zimbabwean art finds global resonance in two new exhibitions

By artnet.com GERMANY: In recent years, both market and institutional interest in contemporary African art has surged, and a new
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US: At 90, Zimbabwean art specialist still works 6 days at gallery considers ‘gift from

By startribune.com When gallery owner Rex Mhiripiri saw a gas station at 90th Street and Penn Avenue S. in Bloomington,
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‘Our reality, our values’: Graffiti finds growing acceptance in West Africa

By Associated Press CONAKRY: It was the middle of the day when Omar Diaw, known by his artist name “Chimere”
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