Bhila plays live in concert at the National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe on Friday 2 October, with gates at 5:30PM and the first act on at 6:00PM. The organisers are turning the night into what they call a Mbawula experience, a warm, gather-round-the-fire setting for the show. Worth catching for anyone after an intimate evening of live music in the gallery.
Bulawayo-born author Sue Nyathi self-published The Polygamist after publishers turned it down, sat through two failed screen deals, and then watched a South African producer take it to Netflix, where it became one of the platform's biggest African hits.
Zimbabwe laughed at Mukadota and Gringo on ZTV long before anyone called it stand-up. Then the stages went quiet, until Book Café open mics, Carl Joshua Ncube's trailblazing and a wave of new names, women among them, rebuilt the industry one sold-out room at a time.
Nutty O's second album went to number one at home and sold out in Wolverhampton within days, with Nigerian and Jamaican features picked to open doors abroad.
