The TRUE AFRICA 100 is our list of innovators, opinion-formers, game-changers, pioneers, dreamers and mavericks who we feel are shaping the Africa of today. Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo is a human-rights activist from Zimbabwe. Nkosilathi is the co-founder and director of Zimbabwe Organization For Youth In Politics (ZOYP). Created in 2010, the organisation is a community-orientatedContinue reading “Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo: the human-rights activist empowering Zim’s youth”
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Are you an artiste but don’t have an agent? Use Whatsapp
The advent of new technologies and gadgets has seen a sudden twist to the old ways of doing business in the arts industry. These platforms have made the business of distribution and marketing arts both easy – or difficult – depending on who you are. Online distribution has made it possible for artists to distribute theirContinue reading “Are you an artiste but don’t have an agent? Use Whatsapp”
We interview Petina Gappah who’s just written a book about an albino woman on death row
Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory is a revealing first novel, an assiduous observation of the Zimbabwean condition. In many ways, it is carrying the torch for Zimbabwean literature: exploring race, culture and class bold-faced and unashamed. But in other ways, it does not do enough, like eating a plate of sadza and vegetables withContinue reading “We interview Petina Gappah who’s just written a book about an albino woman on death row”
The mobile DJs on the roads of Harare
‘Whindi’ is a word that was coined in the streets of Harare to refer to the commuter omnibus operators. Many people travel using the buses, especially those from the ghetto and rural areas. Every commuter omnibus has a driver and a conductor (also called a whindi) who drive and collect money from the 20-plus passengersContinue reading “The mobile DJs on the roads of Harare”
Grace Mugabe: feminist icon or political menace?
Our writer talked to ordinary women in the streets, in cafés, on buses, to find out what they thought about the wife of their president. Their comments and opinions remain anonymous – and very different from the phoney crap we usually hear. Gucci Grace. Dis-Grace. Dr Amai Grace Mugabe. With a list of nicknames like that, it is clearContinue reading “Grace Mugabe: feminist icon or political menace?”