Music, gaming, and the tracks and titles worth your time — including our Soul Pick and Game On spotlights.
Tocky Vibes dropped four albums at once this month, Tomonyongo, Bestie, Changamire and Nyabhagu, with 30 tracks each, a year after a launch that almost nobody attended.
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.
Johannesburg-based DJ Dr Feel is gathering Nitefreak, Dr Chaii, DJ Stavo and more than a dozen others on Inner Visions, an Afro House compilation due in November.
From getting booed at Book Café to a Golden Buzzer on America's Got Talent and a courtroom win over Lebo M, the Chimanimani comic has had a year like no other, and his next stops are Canada, Oklahoma and the New York Comedy Festival.
The Mutabaruka Award-winning poet has announced A Dollar, a seven-track album due on 28 October and his first recorded project in English.
Comic Con Africa opens its sixth edition in Johannesburg today, with Christopher Judge, the Rick and Morty voice cast and a strong local creator lineup, but last year's mixed reviews mean the organisers still have something to prove.
Masvingo rapper Doldo built a new four-track EP partly as an invitation to visit his city, just as Masvingo hosted the country's biggest tourism expo.
Daniel Lasker started making films because there was no industry to join, won festival awards for a Ndebele language sci-fi short, and now plays a Baroque Works agent in one of Netflix's biggest live action series.
Zimbabwe's first superhero team comic, created by Harare artist Tino Makoni, has finally moved off convention-table sales onto a major digital platform alongside Marvel and DC.
Harare studio Lightbulbs & Lazers Animation's new drama series Body Count tackles masculinity, faith and stigma with a visual polish that shows how far the medium has grown in Zimbabwe.
Rockstar's 26-minute GTA 6 gameplay reveal broke viewing records, then split reaction into believers, critics, a cautious middle, and a defensive fanbase.
A category-by-category review of Supercell's Clash Royale, the mobile game that had a huge 2025 comeback and passed $4.9 billion in lifetime player spending.
Netflix confirmed free games back in 2021, here's what actually shipped, from 100+ mobile titles to its 2026 push into cloud gaming on TVs.
Introducing Boom Box, our music reaction series, launched with a look at Winky D's December 2020 Ragga Msambo trilogy and the Zim Dancehall King's reign.
Our review of Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer, its emotion picture, and its Album of the Year Grammy nomination, plus what she's done since.
Our 2017 pick on 19-year-old Khalid's debut, American Teen, plus his 2025 album After the Sun Goes Down, his first since coming out publicly.
Our 2017 pick on Anderson .Paak's genre-blending soul and songwriting, plus what he's done since, from Silk Sonic's Grammy sweep to a 2025 NxWorries win.
Our 2017 review of Beyoncé's Lemonade on its first anniversary, nine years later, Rolling Stone named it the single greatest album of the 21st century.
Our 2017 pick on Junglepussy's wit and self-love message, updated with where she's ended up: a role in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2025 film, named after her.
