Long-form culture, music, and Zimbabwean stories worth sitting with.
Rich countries are ageing fast and Africa is supplying most of the world's new workers, yet UK health and care visa applications are down 95 percent from their peak, settlement rules are under review and Zimbabwe sits on both sides of that equation.
Africa exports most of the crude it pumps and imports the petrol and diesel it runs on. A year of Middle East shocks, Dangote's export push and a proposed pipeline to Bulawayo show what refining at home could, and couldn't, do for fuel prices in places like Zimbabwe.
Harare chef and restaurateur Zandi Mubi-Chitima cooked at two official events at FAO headquarters in Rome, putting traditional Zimbabwean food in front of the world's top forestry forum.
Wicknell Chivayo died in a helicopter crash on 30 September 2026, so we add up the cars and cash he handed to Zimbabwean musicians, comedians and footballers, and ask what that money changed.
Elliot walked through Reality Shift at Westgate with a guide, from the Ames room to the Swirl Chamber, and came out an hour and a half later calling it worth your $15.
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.
Reality Shift invited us to Westgate to try Zimbabwe's first illusion experience: 14 exhibits, including an upside-down room and a mirror maze, for $15 a person, open 9am-7pm daily.
OKAF 2026 brought a bigger Japan Culture Corner, an Embassy-funded manga mentorship booth, and a real Zimbabwean artist's shot at publication in Japan.
Milkshake singer Kelis ranks Zimbabwe among her top African countries for Victoria Falls, years after her very first trip to the continent, at 17, started there too.
Fraser Flight grew up on a Zimbabwean tobacco farm hundreds of miles from the sea. In 2027, he's aiming to become the first Zimbabwean, and the first person from any landlocked African country, to sail solo, unassisted and non-stop around the world.
King Leopold II's private rule over the Congo Free State killed an estimated 10 million people between 1885 and 1908, a history still under-taught today.
Mureza announced its first 100 Prim8 SUVs for Zimbabwe and South Africa in 2021, here's what actually happened to that promise in the years since.
A rundown of the moments that shaped Zimbabwean hip hop in 2020, from the Gze/Noble Styles beef to Holy Ten's breakout and Cal_Vin's tragic death.
My first impressions from Microsoft's June 2021 Windows 11 reveal, plus how features like Android apps and gaming actually panned out years later.
Our first impressions of Android 12's Material You redesign and privacy tools from Google I/O 2021, plus how much of that vision actually stuck around.
How a 2001 broadcasting law requiring 75% local music gave rise to Urban Grooves, the Zimbabwean genre our own Elliot Twist covers in a Disrapt TV documentary.
Nubia, DC's first Black female superhero and Wonder Woman's twin, is now Queen of the Amazons in the comics, and might be headed to the DCU next.
Dividing the Element made history as the first metal record with Shona lyrics in 2018. Here's the Harare band's origin story and where they stand now.
