Mapfumo’s UK reparation performance!!
By: Michael Chipato
The methodical and articulate Oliver Mutukudzi took to stage alongside the proverbially fertile Chimurenga guru Thomas Mapfumo at the Athena in Leicester over the weekend.
The two paired for performances that marked their legendary musical profiles in Zimbabwe and beyond. Over 1200 fans thronged the Athena for a rare treat by Zimbabwe’s two great artists at a gig rightly dubbed “Zimbabwe’s Finest Superstars Reloaded’’.
Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited this time made it to stage after last year’s gigs ‘that were never’ on a reparation mission. Anticipation and a sense of mystery gripped Mapfumo’s followers as they dreaded the unthinkable idea of another non performance by the Chimurenga guru. Mapfumo took the chance to apologize and reassured his fans that ‘we are sorry about what happened last time and are happy to be here’ as he took fans on some lyrical indulgence. Tracks like ‘Pfumvu paruzeva’ and ‘Moyo wangu’ continued to appeal to all unlimitedly.
Mapfumo, Jayaguru as he is referred to proved that he has not reached musical menopause .Dressed ‘fashionably ‘ in a ‘Weedies’ T-shirt and funky jeans he was ‘excited’ about the show that unpacked Chimurenga musical bullets from his wide reservoir of artistic repertoire. Tell me, who can beat that!!!
Mapfumo and Tuku have reigned in their musical constituencies for the longest time in Zimbabwe’s musical history. Tuku recently bagged 2 awards for his lifetime achievements which demonstrate that his music will never be obsolete. In October, the Women’s University in Africa awarded the 57-year-old singer an honorary Master of Fine Arts degree for his contribution to music. Then on November 7, Mutukudzi travelled to San Diego in the United States, where he was presented with the 2009 Cultural Ambassador Award by Project Concern International. Tuku continued to shine and the quality in his musical arrangement stood unpararrelled. The familiar household tune ‘Imi baba manyanya kurova mai’ set the house on fire as fan’s addictively joined in the Superstar’s perfomance.
After Tuku’s performance, Mapfumo took to stage and mourned about the poor public address system management stating that those at the control desk “Havazivi zvavanoita’.Regardless of this technical let down the singer pelted hit after hit triggering fans into sing along mode. Mapfumo is set to release his next album – Exile for Christmas and this promises to be another masterpiece. Mapfumo has continued to speak out against political corruption and dictatorial power .While Tuku plies his trade from Zimbabwe, Mapfumo continues to unrestrainedly unleash satirical art from exile...watch the space.
Wednesday 2 December 2009
Tuesday 22 September 2009
Inspired Fungisai saves the day: Web
http://www.newzimbabwe.com/showbiz-976-Fungisai.%20Remember%20the%20name!/showbiz.aspx
Fungisai shines
14/09/2009 00:00:00
by Michael Chipato
IF OLIVER Mtukudzi is the greatest recording male musician in Zimbabwe, tick the box for Fungisai Zvakavapano as the most outstanding female performer of our generation. Seriously.
It was fitting then that the two stars shared a stage at the Motherland Zimbabwe festival in Redditch, Birmingham, last Saturday – Fungisai’s first ever live performance in the United Kingdom.
The queen of Zimbabwean gospel music was easily the diamond-headed arrow of the day in-between great performances by Mtukudzi and the energetic Albert Nyathi.
Fungisai had the crowd of just over a thousand people eating out of the palm of her hand as she reeled hit after hit, the adulation rising with every majestically delivered verse and every hip movement.
Her performance of the track Mukadzi Munhu raised vital issues in the contemporary gender debate.
And the crowd, basking under the unrelenting sunshine, swayed in unison as Fungisai methodically confirmed her place as a gospel and beyond stage queen.
The great Oliver Mtukudzi, winding down his five-gig UK tour, delivered a flawless performance capped by the most dramatic dance routines he has ever attempted on a stage.
Mtukudzi burst onto the stage as Albert Nyathi was completing his set, and to the sound of Maqhinga Radebe’s maskandi guitar and drums expertly played by Black Spirits drummer Sam Mataure, the 55-year-old rolled back the years with some fancy footwork which whipped the crowd into frenzy.
The festival, organised by the Motherland Zimbabwe charity, is now set to become a permanent fixture on the UK entertainment calendar.
The Heritage Survival kicked off the musical celebration with their traditional Chimurenga flavoured performances. Zimbabwe-born Flava from Middlesbrough unleashed lyrical poetics in smooth kwaito style, proving the wealth and depth of Zimbabwean talent.
Afro Faces graced the stage with their energetic dance routines. Jazz maestro Paul Lunga put up a polished display.
In true festival-style, the day passed off with a wide range of activities for children, all types of Zimbabwean dishes and business exhibitions. Amongst the exhibitors were the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority and Air Zimbabwe.
Meanwhile, Fungisai fans get a second opportunity to watch her in action on Saturday at Birmingham’s Botanical Gardens. She will share the stage with Shingisai Suluma of the Gogodza fame. (Click Here for more information or call 07946260963).
by Michael Chipato
IF OLIVER Mtukudzi is the greatest recording male musician in Zimbabwe, tick the box for Fungisai Zvakavapano as the most outstanding female performer of our generation. Seriously.
It was fitting then that the two stars shared a stage at the Motherland Zimbabwe festival in Redditch, Birmingham, last Saturday – Fungisai’s first ever live performance in the United Kingdom.
The queen of Zimbabwean gospel music was easily the diamond-headed arrow of the day in-between great performances by Mtukudzi and the energetic Albert Nyathi.
Fungisai had the crowd of just over a thousand people eating out of the palm of her hand as she reeled hit after hit, the adulation rising with every majestically delivered verse and every hip movement.
Her performance of the track Mukadzi Munhu raised vital issues in the contemporary gender debate.
And the crowd, basking under the unrelenting sunshine, swayed in unison as Fungisai methodically confirmed her place as a gospel and beyond stage queen.
The great Oliver Mtukudzi, winding down his five-gig UK tour, delivered a flawless performance capped by the most dramatic dance routines he has ever attempted on a stage.
Mtukudzi burst onto the stage as Albert Nyathi was completing his set, and to the sound of Maqhinga Radebe’s maskandi guitar and drums expertly played by Black Spirits drummer Sam Mataure, the 55-year-old rolled back the years with some fancy footwork which whipped the crowd into frenzy.
The festival, organised by the Motherland Zimbabwe charity, is now set to become a permanent fixture on the UK entertainment calendar.
The Heritage Survival kicked off the musical celebration with their traditional Chimurenga flavoured performances. Zimbabwe-born Flava from Middlesbrough unleashed lyrical poetics in smooth kwaito style, proving the wealth and depth of Zimbabwean talent.
Afro Faces graced the stage with their energetic dance routines. Jazz maestro Paul Lunga put up a polished display.
In true festival-style, the day passed off with a wide range of activities for children, all types of Zimbabwean dishes and business exhibitions. Amongst the exhibitors were the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority and Air Zimbabwe.
Meanwhile, Fungisai fans get a second opportunity to watch her in action on Saturday at Birmingham’s Botanical Gardens. She will share the stage with Shingisai Suluma of the Gogodza fame. (Click Here for more information or call 07946260963).
Inspired Fungisai saves the day
Inspired Fungisai saves the day
To the rescue ... Fungisai Zvakavapano on stage last Saturday
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22/09/2009 00:00:00
by Michael Chipato
FUNGISAI Zvakavapano brought down the UK summer entertainment curtain as she again pulled her elastic and premium best before a sizeable crowd in Birmingham last Saturday.
Fungisai saved the day after the top-billed Shingisai Suluma failed to get her visa in time.
Mystery in Stone and Birmingham Botanical Gardens hosted an array of artists including Obert Mazivisa who put in an energetic performance and the rhumba-gospel singer Jayne Doka.
But Fungisai, dubbed the queen of Zimbabwean gospel music, wiped the tears off Shingisai’s disappointed fans with an inspired show.
The serene Botanical Gardens were a perfect backdrop to Fungisai’s soothing gospel melodies that transformed the garden into an Edenic atmosphere.
The diversity of the living Zimbabwean musical museum was unveiled in all its forms and gospel flavours. The work of sculpture on exhibition and the music combined to present a pregnant package of Zimbabwean art.
But the family day show, a third in three consecutive weeks after Zimfest and Motherland Zimbabwe shows, was hit hard by low attendance attributed to ticket prices which some found exorbitant for a family gospel show.
The biggest victor though was Fungisai, who returned to Zimbabwe on Sunday leaving behind an ardent league of new fans.
Fungisai wowed fans last week as a supporting act to Oliver Mtukudzi during the Motherland Zimbabwe festival also held in Birmingham. She was then roped in as a supporting act to the United States-based Shingisai who was, however, foiled by delays in issuing her a visa.
Saturday's show was hosted by the former Radio 2 DJ Eric Knight.
To the rescue ... Fungisai Zvakavapano on stage last Saturday
http://www.newzimbabwe.com/showbiz-1020-Inspired+Fungisai+saves+the+day/showbiz.aspx
22/09/2009 00:00:00
by Michael Chipato
FUNGISAI Zvakavapano brought down the UK summer entertainment curtain as she again pulled her elastic and premium best before a sizeable crowd in Birmingham last Saturday.
Fungisai saved the day after the top-billed Shingisai Suluma failed to get her visa in time.
Mystery in Stone and Birmingham Botanical Gardens hosted an array of artists including Obert Mazivisa who put in an energetic performance and the rhumba-gospel singer Jayne Doka.
But Fungisai, dubbed the queen of Zimbabwean gospel music, wiped the tears off Shingisai’s disappointed fans with an inspired show.
The serene Botanical Gardens were a perfect backdrop to Fungisai’s soothing gospel melodies that transformed the garden into an Edenic atmosphere.
The diversity of the living Zimbabwean musical museum was unveiled in all its forms and gospel flavours. The work of sculpture on exhibition and the music combined to present a pregnant package of Zimbabwean art.
But the family day show, a third in three consecutive weeks after Zimfest and Motherland Zimbabwe shows, was hit hard by low attendance attributed to ticket prices which some found exorbitant for a family gospel show.
The biggest victor though was Fungisai, who returned to Zimbabwe on Sunday leaving behind an ardent league of new fans.
Fungisai wowed fans last week as a supporting act to Oliver Mtukudzi during the Motherland Zimbabwe festival also held in Birmingham. She was then roped in as a supporting act to the United States-based Shingisai who was, however, foiled by delays in issuing her a visa.
Saturday's show was hosted by the former Radio 2 DJ Eric Knight.
Thursday 27 August 2009
Sunday 2 August 2009
Political commitment vs National Interest
I have pondered how much I daily crave to be HOME!! I have been waiting for the dust to settle , but it appears the winds of disruption and political adultery keep swaying my heart to stay a little bit longer. I now wonder where I really belong. I have strong social links within this foreign land but equally feel that I belong somewhere...Home, my motherland, My heart weeps for my murderland !!! My heart weeps when I recieve summons , knells that sends shivers down my spine...all because I have spoken to the world at one time about my murderland. Welcome home my son , but here is what you need to tell the world, the world as I see it.
I have specially invited you so that I tell you what I want the world to know...Not what is real!!
Listen to the voice of propaganda...Reversing the real and upseting truth.
Which is greater, national interest or Political commitment.
All I know is that one of them is an adulterated mode of reality!
I have specially invited you so that I tell you what I want the world to know...Not what is real!!
Listen to the voice of propaganda...Reversing the real and upseting truth.
Which is greater, national interest or Political commitment.
All I know is that one of them is an adulterated mode of reality!
http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-663-Vic%20Falls%20awakens%20for%20World%20Cup/news.aspx
http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-663-Vic%20Falls%20awakens%20for%20World%20Cup/news.aspx
World Cup... The Zimbabwean Experience inspite of the vagarice of life over the past 2 decades!!!
World Cup... The Zimbabwean Experience inspite of the vagarice of life over the past 2 decades!!!
Sunday 26 July 2009
Sunday 21 June 2009
http://www.newzimbabwe.com/showbiz-406-Book+Review+A+Dark+Horizon/showbiz.aspx
Book Review: A Dark Horizon
08/06/2009 00:00:00
by Michael Chipato
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JANINE Dube has come a long way to establish herself as one of Zimbabwe’s finest emerging contemporary writers from the Diaspora.
If her latest work – A Dark Horizon -- is anything to go by, her future alongside some of Zimbabwe’s literary luminaries is secure.
Janine’s fiction is "very simple on the surface, but there's a depth; she uses the novel for a political and social end", said one reviewer on Amazon.
The 29-year-old says she draws her inspiration from the challenges that people from the developing world face. She permanently occupied with private concerns of how the outside world perceives Africa, and Zimbabwe in particular.
The negative view of Zimbabwe makes her sad, she says. And in her assigned role within the vast post-colonial discourse, she presents Zimbabwe as a place where life is normal too.
She treats current issues with artistic dexterity within the boundaries of contemporary discourse. The current political situation in Zimbabwe does not escape her watchful artistic eye.
Janine, who lives in the Welsh town of Newport, told New Zimbabwe.com that through the book, she hopes to “dispel some myths the world has about Africa and Zimbabwe”.
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She added: “It is a contemporary tale that raises issues that society may or may not be comfortable discussing openly … an accessibly-written tale that is also meant to entertain.”
The book’s hero is a woman called Rachel. After inheriting a struggling company, Rachel is tempted into marrying an older man who also happens to be one of the wealthiest and most powerful businessmen in the country.
She knows she faces an uphill struggle, but she relishes the challenge of reviving the ailing company.
Soon, she is facing more challenges in the form of his children, especially his son who is adamant that she is not suitable for his father. As she struggles to prove herself at work and at home, she is unaware of the meticulously planned plot to bring her already shaky world crushing down.
Janine is keen to use the broader national crisis to reveal its tentacles spreading to private enterprise and family life.
Though not strictly a feminist writer, she is firm in principle on the need for equality, fairness between genders and equal opportunities in all matters of life.
The most distressing inequality symptom in society that she projects is that for a woman to be recognised, she has to “prove herself” before accessing the male-dominated means of production.
Janine is passionate about African leaders and challenges them to demonstrate to the world that there is a lot that Africa offers.
She is scathing in her condemnation of the world media’s treatment of Africa – “a place of death, corruption, disease and dictators” – but also expresses sorrow that some Africans are feeding the negativity.
A Dark Horizon (320 pages) (2009) published by AuthorHouse (UK). You can buy it on AuthorHouse.com and Amazon. It will be available from WH Smith and other retailers soon
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Book Review: A Dark Horizon
08/06/2009 00:00:00
by Michael Chipato
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JANINE Dube has come a long way to establish herself as one of Zimbabwe’s finest emerging contemporary writers from the Diaspora.
If her latest work – A Dark Horizon -- is anything to go by, her future alongside some of Zimbabwe’s literary luminaries is secure.
Janine’s fiction is "very simple on the surface, but there's a depth; she uses the novel for a political and social end", said one reviewer on Amazon.
The 29-year-old says she draws her inspiration from the challenges that people from the developing world face. She permanently occupied with private concerns of how the outside world perceives Africa, and Zimbabwe in particular.
The negative view of Zimbabwe makes her sad, she says. And in her assigned role within the vast post-colonial discourse, she presents Zimbabwe as a place where life is normal too.
She treats current issues with artistic dexterity within the boundaries of contemporary discourse. The current political situation in Zimbabwe does not escape her watchful artistic eye.
Janine, who lives in the Welsh town of Newport, told New Zimbabwe.com that through the book, she hopes to “dispel some myths the world has about Africa and Zimbabwe”.
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She added: “It is a contemporary tale that raises issues that society may or may not be comfortable discussing openly … an accessibly-written tale that is also meant to entertain.”
The book’s hero is a woman called Rachel. After inheriting a struggling company, Rachel is tempted into marrying an older man who also happens to be one of the wealthiest and most powerful businessmen in the country.
She knows she faces an uphill struggle, but she relishes the challenge of reviving the ailing company.
Soon, she is facing more challenges in the form of his children, especially his son who is adamant that she is not suitable for his father. As she struggles to prove herself at work and at home, she is unaware of the meticulously planned plot to bring her already shaky world crushing down.
Janine is keen to use the broader national crisis to reveal its tentacles spreading to private enterprise and family life.
Though not strictly a feminist writer, she is firm in principle on the need for equality, fairness between genders and equal opportunities in all matters of life.
The most distressing inequality symptom in society that she projects is that for a woman to be recognised, she has to “prove herself” before accessing the male-dominated means of production.
Janine is passionate about African leaders and challenges them to demonstrate to the world that there is a lot that Africa offers.
She is scathing in her condemnation of the world media’s treatment of Africa – “a place of death, corruption, disease and dictators” – but also expresses sorrow that some Africans are feeding the negativity.
A Dark Horizon (320 pages) (2009) published by AuthorHouse (UK). You can buy it on AuthorHouse.com and Amazon. It will be available from WH Smith and other retailers soon
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Wednesday 25 March 2009
Tsvangirai heads tourism campaign
By Michael Chipato
Posted to the web: 24/03/2009 23:36:05
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai arrived back home at noon Tuesday after a brief compassionate leave following the death of his wife in a road crash on March 6.
Tsvangirai and his family spent a week in South Africa’s port city of Durban as guests of the South African government.
The Prime Minister is set to begin work on Thursday with two major engagements. He will officially open a two day conference to map strategies for reviving the country’s tourism industry before chairing a Council of Ministers meeting.
Tsvangirai arrived home as prices started to fall after years of devastating inflation that left the national currency nearly worthless - a rare piece of good news for an economy that remains a shambles.
Prices of goods bought in U.S. dollars - Zimbabwe's new official currency - declined by 3 percent since January, the state statistical office said Tuesday.
Until the Zimbabwe dollar became virtually obsolete in recent weeks, Zimbabwe's last official inflation rate in the local currency was given as 231 million percent in August, by far the highest in the world.
Moffat Nyoni, head of the Central Statistical Office, said items priced at an average of $100 (euro73) in January cost $97 (euro71) this month.
No official annual U.S. dollar inflation figure was calculated, Nyoni told reporters. And the situation is complex, because dollars are not readily available. But some Zimbabweans get money from relatives or friends working abroad, and the government recently began paying civil servants in dollar vouchers.
Tsvangirai is expected to send a bullish message to the world that Zimbabwe is open for business and tourists at the opening of the tourism conference in Harare which will run under the theme "Deepening Partnerships for the Revival of the Tourism Economy."
The government announced a short term economic revival strategy called STERP last week. It identifies tourism as a key sector.
Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Walter Mzembi said: "This conference seeks to realign stakeholders in the tourism industry to the STERP. Tourism is expected to provide a soft landing for the new economic blueprint.
"The industry needs significant investment. I believe that tourism and its minister is the public relations face of the country. The most attractive product we have is inclusivity and celebrating diversity.
"The country’s image has been under a barrage of cyberspace attack through negative publicity which includes travel warnings, yet we have very peaceful and co-existent destinations.”
Under STERP high-level teams will be dispatched to different countries to reflect a positive image and potential of the country, as well as removing the country risk perceptions entrenched in source markets and consequently lobby for the removal of travel warnings.
Zimbabwe is also keen to capitalise on next year’s Fifa World Cup – and Tsvangirai will emphasise the need for Zimbabwean companies to intensify programmes to promote soccer tourism.JOIN THE DEBATE ON THIS ARTICLE ON THE NEWZIMBABWE.COM FORUMSnews@newzimbabwe.com
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Posted to the web: 24/03/2009 23:36:05
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai arrived back home at noon Tuesday after a brief compassionate leave following the death of his wife in a road crash on March 6.
Tsvangirai and his family spent a week in South Africa’s port city of Durban as guests of the South African government.
The Prime Minister is set to begin work on Thursday with two major engagements. He will officially open a two day conference to map strategies for reviving the country’s tourism industry before chairing a Council of Ministers meeting.
Tsvangirai arrived home as prices started to fall after years of devastating inflation that left the national currency nearly worthless - a rare piece of good news for an economy that remains a shambles.
Prices of goods bought in U.S. dollars - Zimbabwe's new official currency - declined by 3 percent since January, the state statistical office said Tuesday.
Until the Zimbabwe dollar became virtually obsolete in recent weeks, Zimbabwe's last official inflation rate in the local currency was given as 231 million percent in August, by far the highest in the world.
Moffat Nyoni, head of the Central Statistical Office, said items priced at an average of $100 (euro73) in January cost $97 (euro71) this month.
No official annual U.S. dollar inflation figure was calculated, Nyoni told reporters. And the situation is complex, because dollars are not readily available. But some Zimbabweans get money from relatives or friends working abroad, and the government recently began paying civil servants in dollar vouchers.
Tsvangirai is expected to send a bullish message to the world that Zimbabwe is open for business and tourists at the opening of the tourism conference in Harare which will run under the theme "Deepening Partnerships for the Revival of the Tourism Economy."
The government announced a short term economic revival strategy called STERP last week. It identifies tourism as a key sector.
Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Walter Mzembi said: "This conference seeks to realign stakeholders in the tourism industry to the STERP. Tourism is expected to provide a soft landing for the new economic blueprint.
"The industry needs significant investment. I believe that tourism and its minister is the public relations face of the country. The most attractive product we have is inclusivity and celebrating diversity.
"The country’s image has been under a barrage of cyberspace attack through negative publicity which includes travel warnings, yet we have very peaceful and co-existent destinations.”
Under STERP high-level teams will be dispatched to different countries to reflect a positive image and potential of the country, as well as removing the country risk perceptions entrenched in source markets and consequently lobby for the removal of travel warnings.
Zimbabwe is also keen to capitalise on next year’s Fifa World Cup – and Tsvangirai will emphasise the need for Zimbabwean companies to intensify programmes to promote soccer tourism.JOIN THE DEBATE ON THIS ARTICLE ON THE NEWZIMBABWE.COM FORUMSnews@newzimbabwe.com
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Saturday 7 February 2009
Zimbabwe speaks
The era of a hero who was a zero
Must come to a sunset and death
The dome of senseless rule to deaths it led
At peak zeroes increased as value decreased
Increase our wisdom Oh God divine
Decrease the greed and inrease the care
The poor all moan and groan for life
So long the wails have risen
In you Oh mighty, Let power be seen
To shift the earth and perch in Zim
So many have gone to lions in in forests
To scrounge and scrape like never before
Yet now so norm the scatter has taught
Yet home ,so poised the spring awaits
Come home, Come home , the spirit calls
To all thus scattered around the globe
You are mine , Mother Zim affirms
Zim is mine one man once said
The truth remains Zim bore us all
Not to for one man to own all Zim
Too long you've been scorned and mocked for me
Yet now the chance , gives power to you
Make me , the Old pride that was at first
Scramble, Scramble it was back then
Exodus , Escape today most do
I need you all my people for pride
You're skilled though I 'm killed
To life bring me , You have the power
Be filled with zeal, to seal the deal
Hope filled , spirit filled, Zim filled
Must come to a sunset and death
The dome of senseless rule to deaths it led
At peak zeroes increased as value decreased
Increase our wisdom Oh God divine
Decrease the greed and inrease the care
The poor all moan and groan for life
So long the wails have risen
In you Oh mighty, Let power be seen
To shift the earth and perch in Zim
So many have gone to lions in in forests
To scrounge and scrape like never before
Yet now so norm the scatter has taught
Yet home ,so poised the spring awaits
Come home, Come home , the spirit calls
To all thus scattered around the globe
You are mine , Mother Zim affirms
Zim is mine one man once said
The truth remains Zim bore us all
Not to for one man to own all Zim
Too long you've been scorned and mocked for me
Yet now the chance , gives power to you
Make me , the Old pride that was at first
Scramble, Scramble it was back then
Exodus , Escape today most do
I need you all my people for pride
You're skilled though I 'm killed
To life bring me , You have the power
Be filled with zeal, to seal the deal
Hope filled , spirit filled, Zim filled
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- Michael Chipato
- Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
- Michael Chipato is a social and development scientist currently living in Birmingham.Over the years issues pertaining social inequalities, dictatorship, political oppression and gender disparities have been his research focus.As an artist, journalist and academic Michael's philosophy of life is greatly influenced by Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) ... a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal (1960–1980). Senghor was the first African to sit as a member of the Académie française. He was also the founder of the political party called the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. He is regarded by many as one of the most important African intellectuals of the 20th century. Senghor created the concept of Négritude, an important intellectual movement that sought to assert and to valorize what they believed to be distinctive African characteristics, values, and aesthetics..He does not condone oppression and violence in any shape or form.
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Zimbabweans hang in the balance
