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BULAWAYO, Mar 10 2004 (IPS) - A white-suited quartet slides onto a small stage in Bulawayo, southern Zimbabwe. There’s a flash of a smile before the grey-haired men step forward, their songs matching ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Culture: Beyond the City of Kings: Why Bulawayo creative industry remains on the margins of Zimbabwe’s cultural economy
Bulawayo has long been celebrated as Zimbabwe's cultural capital, a city whose artistic legacy has shaped the country's identity through music, theatre, poetry, dance, film and visual arts. It is the ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Culture: European Union and Culture Fund step up support to Zimbabwe’s creative sector
The European Union in partnership with the Culture Fund of Zimbabwe has stepped up its support to the creative sector in Zimbabwe amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Culture Fund of Zimbabwe Trust ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Culture: Zimbabwe gets back iconic bird statues stolen during colonialism
They figure on Zimbabwe‘s national flag, banknotes and official documents: stone statues representing birds taken away by the European colonialists more than a century ago. The eight original ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Culture: CULTURE-ZIMBABWE: Communities Make Funerals Their Core Business
BULAWAYO, Aug 18 2003 (IPS) - It’s the first Sunday of the month. On the streets in Mpopoma – a working class area – many adults, both men and women but especially men, are distinguishable by their ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Culture: In Zimbabwe, a small publisher that helped launch big voices shuts down
Harare, Zimbabwe – In 2006, a small but supportive publisher helped Zimbabwean author Valerie Tagwira make the transition from doctor to published author, picking up her first novel, The Uncertainty ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Culture: Hunting in Zimbabwe For Identity And Family
Little, Brown and Company, 352 pages, $24.99. Last August, I visited an elderly Jewish couple at their spacious apartment in an affluent neighborhood in Johannesburg, South Africa. A distant family ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Culture: Zimbabwe’s Powerful Music of Struggle
In April of 1980, when Bob Marley arrived to headline the independence celebrations that would see Rhodesia become Zimbabwe, his song “Zimbabwe,” the centerpiece of the “Survival” album, was the most ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Culture: Zimbabwe: Culture Week Preparations Gather Momentum
Art is the most efficient vehicle of portraying culture and the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe organises Culture Week annually to celebrate different cultures.With the national launch set for ...
News Zimbabwe » Bulawayo » Culture: Genuine Reform Culture Lacking in Zimbabwe
Genuine Reform Culture Lacking in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe needs urgent economic and political reforms to transform its economy amidst a growing national crisis, researchers say as more than 7 million ...