The effects of the statement are evident millions of miles away in the ailing Zimbabwean music industry where artists such as Cindy, Leonard Mapfumo, Stach, Trevor Dongo, Juicer Mpositori, producers Joe Machingura and McDonald "Mac Dee" Chidavaenzi and others have strongly recommended marketing their own products.
Mac Dee, the founder of Eternity Studios, said by that distributing their own CDs at charges they can control, they are able to restore the pride of owning original CDs.
"I used to produce albums and submit them to much bigger stables such as Metro Studios and Diamond Production Studios for marketing and distribution. But now we are taking everything into our own hands."
Heshi Mfeshi producer, Machingura, also revealed that they managed to sell a commendable 2 500 copies of Mapfumo's previous album and 1 000 copies for the lead single ‘Two Chete’ (just the two of us).
Cindy is also on record saying that she has sold more than 700 copies of her album ‘The Groove Theory’on her own.
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Well done !Forward ever , backwards never . Explotation should be dead and done with . Honestly , where is the so called independence of 1980 if people are ever becoming worse-off than they were before the so called independence . We can not talk of the born-frees and thereafter , it’s like in a maze , they can not understand what is going on .Look , they can not be found anymore teeming in the streets loitering or grouping in street corners , sighing and yawning blankly , stealthily glancing at each other as if to get a hint of assurance from anyone of the group members at each other that : don’t worry , it will be all fine . That would be a far -fetched reassurance in a country unemployment riddled . No prospects for employment after high school even after university graduating . What did they do next : risked their lives , illegally crossing the South African boarder . Some unfortunately met death as it was so risky an undertaking .This hazardous undertaking is still in the present tense .
I am truly for individual empowerment . Why do you have to go round the circles – Metro Studios , Diamond Prodution Studios ? Yes , ndizvo , mari yako muhomwe mako straight .Those production studios have exploitated people for a very long time . How I love to see the young captivated , engrossed and fascinated in self-empowering . I don’t want to see them being desperate for employment for a prolonged time which will lead to destitution . The young are the future . And I have all the faith in them that they won’t be as greedy as the present old . Above all they would recognise when change of things is needed . They won’t cling on to power until the second coming of Jesus because they are not afraid to venture out in the unknown .