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#DemLoot was made for talking: The Zimbabwe struggle song of a new generation © Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights Reserved What likely started off as social media banter by Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono after his release on bail from Chikurubi maximum security prison towards the end of January 2021, has struck a reactive chord in Zimbabwe and abroad.  “Find me a good music producer, we must sing AGAINST LOOTERS and them out of town!”, Chin’ono tweeted with teary laughing emojis as his idea of singing came into life. Many responded and word soon spread like a veld ...

When Zimbabwe’s popular culture historians sit down one day to determine the biggest influences on the Zimdancehall reggae subgenre, it will be difficult to discount the contribution of three figures: reggae legend Bob Marley, chimurenga maestro Thomas Mapfumo and Dennis Wilson, the Black British telecommunications engineer-turned-radio deejay who died in Harare on 6 January at the age of 66.  The story of how Marley, the key figure in that triumvirate, ended up in Zimbabwe is well documented. But a few rudimentary facts about his journey to Zimbabwe need repeating, if only because they il...

The Zimbabwe Independent June 12, 2020 Gora Zowa Machoronga, born Tafadzwa Gora, is an upcoming Afrocoustic musician working on his first offering – a 15-track album set for release within a month. So promising is his work that promoters in Europe and the United States are already calling to book him for shows even before his first work is out. Journalist Gabriel Manyati (GM) sat down with Gora (TG, pictured) this week to get an insight into what music fans can expect from the sizzling newbie, who has already assembled a band and is raring to hit the music scene with the fo...

RatieD. Courtesy Photo. When she was a girl living in Zimbabwe, Eugene musician Claire Ratidzo Dangarembwa, who performs as RatieD, would sing out loud in front of an arts theater near her high school. “I generally would sing out loud, all the time, everywhere,” RatieD tells me over the phone, on the occasion of her debut EP, Ink & Melodies, out now on music streaming services.  No one from the arts theater heard RatieD, but she kept singing, inspired at the time by pop musicians like Avril Lavigne and hip hop from Common as much as the traditional music of Zimbabwe. “I believed in my...

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