Mbare Art Space: a colonial beer hall in Zimbabwe has become a vibrant arts centre

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Zimbabwe’s house of stone: the gallery that showcases a famous sculpture tradition

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Kirsty Coventry and whiteness in Zimbabwe: how sport can rewrite the political rules

Kirsty Coventry’s rise to political importance as a white woman in a black majority Zimbabwe shows...

Colonial powers tried to stifle traditional healing in Zimbabwe. They failed and today it’s a powerful force for treating mental illness

Korekore people in the Rushinga district have not wavered in their beliefs about and ways of...

Zimbabwe’s ZiG: devaluations won’t fix a currency that’s in trouble because of government overspending

To stabilise the new currency the government must address its habit of printing money, overspending on...

Colonial white boys in Zimbabwe: John Eppel’s autobiography is a welcome book, but a difficult read

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Zimbabwe’s new dinosaur discovery: inside the find

Musankwa is only the fourth dinosaur to be named from Zimbabwe....

Zimbabwean migration to South Africa: how technology helps keep families together

Political instability and economic decline in Zimbabwe have accelerated migration to South Africa in the last...

What’s behind the worldwide shortage of cholera vaccines? For starters, they’re only made by one company

The world’s stockpile of cholera vaccines has run dry, bad news for cholera-ravaged southern Africa. Why...

Happy smiling African children: why school tourism in Zimbabwe shouldn’t be encouraged

A school tour often sits within the itinerary of a tour of southern Africa, or alongside...

Nervous Conditions: on translating one of Zimbabwe’s most famous novels into Shona

I started translating Nervous Conditions around 1999 when I was a visiting Fulbright scholar in the...

Stella Chiweshe: Zimbabwe’s mbira queen, rebel music star and pioneer

She paved the way for women to play the mbira – and then took the ancient...

Shepherd Ndudzo’s celebrated sculptures tell an untold history of southern African art

His work can only be fully understood by observing the shared traditions of Botswana, Zimbabwe and...

HIV-positive parents in Zimbabwe struggle to manage their children’s education – study shows how

Over the past three decades researchers have explored various aspects of the impact of the HIV...

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