Trivia on the Zimbabwean and African names you should already know.
James Manyika oversees Google's research labs and co-chaired the UN's advisory body on AI, and the first thing he ever published was a paper on neural networks written as an undergraduate at the University of Zimbabwe in 1992.
World Space Week runs until 10 October, and the man who has coordinated it here since 2014 is one of the engineers behind ZimSat-1, a 10cm satellite built by Zimbabwean students in Japan and released from the International Space Station in 2022.
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.
Elsa Majimbo went from lockdown comedy videos to Valentino campaigns, a Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 nod, and is now pivoting toward filmmaking in Hollywood.
Kudzai Muwori, known as WOWRAE, has spent 16 years fusing Zimbabwean marimba with AfroHouse and AfroTech, from school hobby to festival stages.
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