Zimbabwean culture is having a moment. Our music is travelling. Our festivals are getting bigger. Zimbabweans in the diaspora are creating spaces where people can hear home, eat home, dress like home and, for a few hours, forget that they left home.
Passno Percy “P.P.” Molife lived through colonial Rhodesia, apartheid-era restrictions and the birth of independent Zimbabwe. Across 96 years, he became an education pioneer, accomplished violinist and humanitarian whose work quietly helped shape generations.
When Angie Mantini sings, the boundary between studio craftsmanship and spiritual devotion dissolves. Navigating the intersection of traditional gospel roots and contemporary urban sounds, the artist has carved out a distinct identity marked by linguistic versatility, visual excellence, and an uncompromising commitment to her faith. In this exclusive Q&A, she sits down with Trevor Mawaka to reflect on the lessons passed down from her mother, navigating creative partnerships, and why her ultimate ambition is to write songs that offer solace in the quietest hours of the night.
There are musicians who become famous because they stand in front of the microphone, and there are others whose names may not always appear first on posters but whose fingerprints can be found across an entire generation of music. Delani Makhalima belongs to the latter category. The story of Zimbabwe’s Urban Grooves revolution is often told through the voices that dominated radio, the artists who became household names and the songs that became national anthems. Yet behind many of those voices was a generation of producers, innovators and industry builders who were trying to create something Zimbabwe had not fully embraced before. Among them was Delani Makhalima.
BULAWAYO – Behind some of the biggest Hip Hop Afro Soul and Maskandi records across Southern Africa sits one man Thulani Nyashanu known to the industry as DJ Face or 2LANI With an engineering and production portfolio that includes work for heavyweights like Emtee Vusi Nova Big Zulu and Fifi Cooper the veteran producer is stepping out from behind the board and into the spotlight.
WINKY D’S TÊTE-À-TÊTE (HELLO AFRICA): A SOCIALLY CHARGED CONVERSATION WITH ZIMBABWE, AFRICA AND SELF
Winky D’s latest album, Tête-à-Tête (Hello Africa), is a socially charged 16-track project that interrogates inequality, patriotism, leadership, freedom, African identity and culture while also making room for love, personal struggles and self-reflection.
