Entertainment
When the headline is a price tag, the songs risk becoming the side story.
A six-month-old gallery in the Domboshava hills staged a national exhibition and competition called Tsika Dzedu, and selected works are on show until 3 October.
Six stone sculptors are showing eagles, owls, hornbills and rollers at Kori Studio in Bulawayo until 25 September, months after the last Great Zimbabwe bird returned home.
Domestic visits to Great Zimbabwe jumped 26 percent last year, but most Zimbabweans still haven't seen the stone city that gave the country its name. Here's what's there and how to get to it.
Shoko Festival returns from 24 to 26 September under the theme Unmuted, and its Mash Up Night is putting a full live band behind rappers who usually perform over backing tracks.
Harare's latest vending crackdown has already partially reversed itself, so here's what Kigali and Durban got right, why the same fight is playing out in New York and Barcelona, and what the mayor, the minister and the vendors' own union are actually saying about it.
From a farm-rebuild documentary series to Zimbabwe's answer to Tiny Desk, ten Zimbabwean YouTube channels that are building something real instead of chasing viral moments.
Achugogo: Tale of the Spring Chaser just won Annecy's inaugural TCCF Prize, produced in part by Tendayi Nyeke, a Zimbabwean-born alum of Triggerfish Animation Studios.
Kenyan comedian Crazy Kennar built a following on relatable, satirical takes on African governance, and it recently earned him a face to face selfie with Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
Our daily run of the people and projects that kept Zimbabwe's arts scene moving in September.
When the headline is a price tag, the songs risk becoming the side story.
Nollywood produces around 2,500 films a year and built a global streaming presence from nothing. Zimbabwe's own film industry only got its first formal strategy in November 2024.
Salladhor Saan, the pirate lord who backed Stannis Baratheon, was played by an actor who did his entire schooling in Harare before building a career on London's biggest stages.
Years before she became Okoye in Black Panther, Danai Gurira wrote a play that became the first production on Broadway with an entirely Black, entirely female cast and creative team.
Bob Marley chartered his own plane, waived his fee, and flew 21 tonnes of equipment into a newborn Zimbabwe to play its independence celebrations in April 1980.
A Harare band built on mbira and electric guitars ended up opening for Madonna at Wembley Stadium in 1987, one of the biggest crossover moments Zimbabwean music has ever had.
Before the Songlines awards and the 40-country tours, Mokoomba was six childhood friends from Chinotimba township learning instruments together after school.
Afro-fusion musician Dereck Mpofu presented WHO's 2026 Hepatitis and STI campaign song to Director-General Tedros in Geneva, his latest health-advocacy work.
Zimbabwean mbira artist Mary Anibal will perform at ACCES 2026 in Johannesburg this October, her first time playing South Africa with a full band.
Hosted by our co-founder Elliot Twist alongside Aura Kawanzaruwa, My 2 Cents sits down with Zimbabwean musicians, authors, comedians and entertainment personalities for candid conversation on the culture, the industry and the moment.
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Nyasha Gwanzura's career-best 4 for 33 bowled West Indies out for 139 in Harare, and Zimbabwe chased it down with 55 balls to spare for a first ever ODI win over the Caribbean side and their first points of the ICC Women's Championship.
A signed copy of Mudiwa Hood's comeback album Dhara Re Madhara reportedly went for US$90,000 at its launch, thirty times what his 2015 album fetched.
