September In Motion: The Birds Came Home, Now Six Sculptors Are Carving New Ones

September In Motion: The Birds Came Home, Now Six Sculptors Are Carving New Ones

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.

23 September 2026
The City That Named Zimbabwe: Why Every Zimbabwean Should See Great Zimbabwe Once

The City That Named Zimbabwe: Why Every Zimbabwean Should See Great Zimbabwe Once

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.

20 September 2026
Hip Hop With a Live Band: Shoko's 16th Edition Makes a Point

Hip Hop With a Live Band: Shoko's 16th Edition Makes a Point

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.

18 September 2026
Operation Chenesa: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Harare's Vendor Crackdown

Operation Chenesa: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Harare's Vendor Crackdown

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.

18 September 2026
10 Zimbabwean YouTube Channels Actually Worth Your Subscribe Button

10 Zimbabwean YouTube Channels Actually Worth Your Subscribe Button

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.

18 September 2026
Meet the Producer Behind One of Animation's Buzziest New Fantasy Series

Meet the Producer Behind One of Animation's Buzziest New Fantasy Series

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.

14 September 2026
Why Crazy Kennar's Skits Might Be the Most Important Social Commentary on Africa Right Now

Why Crazy Kennar's Skits Might Be the Most Important Social Commentary on Africa Right Now

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.

14 September 2026
Reality Shift Has Opened in Westgate: Inside Harare's First Illusion Experience

Reality Shift Has Opened in Westgate: Inside Harare's First Illusion Experience

Reality Shift, an interactive illusion experience with an upside-down room and a mirror maze, has opened at Westgate. Confirmed via the venue's own Instagram and TikTok: it's open now, $15 entry, 9am-7pm daily.

14 September 2026
Otakukon 2026: Zimbabwe's Anime Festival Levels Up Its Japan Culture Corner

Otakukon 2026: Zimbabwe's Anime Festival Levels Up Its Japan Culture Corner

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.

11 September 2026
Zimbabwe Made It to Kelis's Top 5 African Countries

Zimbabwe Made It to Kelis's Top 5 African Countries

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.

10 September 2026
Meet the Zimbabwean Sailor Attempting to Sail Solo, Non-Stop, Around the World

Meet the Zimbabwean Sailor Attempting to Sail Solo, Non-Stop, Around the World

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.

8 September 2026
The forgotten genocide in the Congo.

The forgotten genocide in the Congo.

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.

28 July 2021
African Car Company Mureza Launches First 100 Cars.

African Car Company Mureza Launches First 100 Cars.

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.

20 July 2021
Zim Hip Hop in 2020

Zim Hip Hop in 2020

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.

29 June 2021
Windows 11: A long awaited update with a few disappointments

Windows 11: A long awaited update with a few disappointments

My first impressions from Microsoft's June 2021 Windows 11 reveal, plus how features like Android apps and gaming actually panned out years later.

27 June 2021
Android 12: Our Thoughts

Android 12: Our Thoughts

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.

20 June 2021
Our very own Elliot Twist features in Urban Grooves 'The Journey' by Disrapt TV

Our very own Elliot Twist features in Urban Grooves 'The Journey' by Disrapt TV

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.

4 May 2021
Nubia: Wonder Woman's Sister Origins

Nubia: Wonder Woman's Sister Origins

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.

20 August 2018
Zimbabwean Metal: Dividing the Element

Zimbabwean Metal: Dividing the Element

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.

4 July 2018

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