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The duo of Taku Mafika the mbira prince and Shoes Lambada one of the finest poets in the country yesterday sent an audience of more than 150 people into a frenzy at the Annual Intercultural Summer Party held in Munster, Germany held on Sarturday 30 July 2011. The event is an international gathering that happens once every year and this year there were participants from 17 countries mostly from

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Mbira maestro and tutor Taku Mafika left for Germany together with the Coordinator of Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights: Shoes Lambada. The two were invited for a two-week conference by a German organisation, Solarnet International. The two, will spend two weeks with 35 other participants from 18 countries attending the International Reporters’ Conference.“I am happy to be invited to take part in

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The Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) this year saw poets invading Street as they once did two years ago. This year running under the theme, "The Engagement Party" saw poets performing at the usual HIVOS poetry cafe run by the HIFA consultant Chirikure Chirikure and also perfoming along international artists in Harare's First Street. The street poetry programme saw poets performing

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On Wednesday the 22nd of September, revolutionary poetry and hip-hop movements, Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights and Chimoto came together to commemorate the International day of Peace. The event was held at the Alliance Francaise de Harare. There was a whooping crowd of more than 100 poetry lovers in attendance. The most unique aspect of the party was the game-no-rules aspect that saw poets doing

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zimbabwe poets for human rights member performing On Saturday the 13th of March youth in Kadoma mobilized themselves to speak on the political violence that engulfed the 27 June 2008 sham election. This comes at a time when the President of Zimbabwe Cde R.G Mugabe announced that next year there shall be elections whether a new constitution is in place or not. Therefore, there are fears that if

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By Ronald MureverwiItai aka Madiz performing with his group aboveScores of people from all walks of life gathered along first street in the city centre of Harare on Saturday 20th of June to commemorate the day in which more than 500 students were killed protesting against inferior education in apartheid South Africa in 1976. The Memeza maiden festival which exploded into dance, poetry, mbira and

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Its a beehive of acvtivity in Harare's First Street on Saturday 20 June 2009 when Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights (ZPHR)take on the challenge to join African children to commemorate the Day of the African Child through a Street festival christened MEMEZA which literally means "SHOUT OUT". This year's theme is, "Africa fit for children: A call for accelerated action towards thei survival." ZPHR

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ARARE - The Zimbabwe Poets on Tuesday evening commemorated Operation Murambatsvina with a poetry night at the Quill Club in Harare.The poetry night was sponsored by the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)."It is basically a night of rememberance. We are working with artists to commemorate Operation Murambatsvina a dark era in the history of our country," said Takura Zhangazha, MISA

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(Pictured above is part of the crowd at Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights inaugural First Street Poetry Forum on 21 March 2009)Lunch is ready! Harare International Festival of the ArtsBy Tomson PhiriZimbabwe Poets for Human Rights will this year take the Harare International Festival of the Arts into the First Street Shopping Mall from Wednesday the 29th to Saturday the 2nd of May during the lunch

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Detembo iri rakanyorwa naNyanduri ShoesLambada. Rakambonzwikwa ku House of Hunger Poetry Slam muHarare, Masvingo (Spirit of Great Zimbabwe Poetry Slam), Senegal, Dakar uyezve kuIndia nyangwe vazhinji vaisanzwa zvairehwa nedetembo iri. Dzimwe nguva rinombodetembwa nembira dzinoridwa nagwenyambira Takunda Mafika uyo anoridza nechikwata chake chinonzi Tru-Bantu.TARIROVanondiunzira mbuya Chiweshe

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This poem was written by Robson Isaac Shoes Lambada interrogating the concept of Political Independence in Zimbabwe which was gained on 18 April 1980 through an armed liberation struggle led by the current President Robert Gabriel Mugabe. Mugabe has now become a dictator and people no longer enjoy the benefits of independence. ShoesLambada is the co-founder and Programmes Manager of Zimbabwe

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This poem was written by Ronald tapfuma Jongwe Known as Wezhira in the Zimbwbwean poetry circles. Wezhira is an international poet who has performed at international platforms like the Highway Africa in South Africa, UN Habitat International Youth Crime Prevention and Cities Summit, SADC Regional Youth Hearing and the Harare International Festival of the Arts. This poem is sometimes performed as

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This poem was written by Robson Isaac Shoes Lambada. It has been recited at the House of Hunger poetry slam, Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights poetry forum, Harare International Festival of the Arts, Regional Youth Hearing in South Africa, The Info-Activism Camp in India and The Africa Cultural Night in Senegal.Ragged and funny In dire need of moneyI bruise the pot-holed streets of the cityMaiming

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MISA- Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights commemorate World Poetry DayAs part of its mandate to promote freedom of expression in Zimbabwe, MISA-Zimbabwe together with Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights on 21 March, commemorated the International World Poetry Day in a poetry session dubbed Weapons of Mass Instruction.The poetry session, which featured twenty four poets from Harare and

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From the 16th to the 26th of February 2009, Robson Isaac Shoes Lambada and Fungai Machirori (Harare based poets) were in India attending the inaugural Info-Activism Camp hosted by the Tactical Technology Collective . They joined other 148 participqants from more than 40 countries worldwide. They were participants as well as performers.ShoesLambada is one of the poets known for his critical

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By Tomson PhiriPresent day Zimbabwe is the extreme version of its own former self if one goes down not very far though along memory lane. Space for dissent; intellectual debate and artistic production has literary been shut since the turn of the century. Great odds exist for any attempts at producing any objective and independent artefacts whilst opening up of such space for debate is akin to

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Gender Justice, Equality and EquityBy Ronald JongweRedifining Masculinity:" Are we getting any closer to attaining a gender equal society in Africa?"This article was written by Ronald Jongwe a Zimbabwean poet. He advocates for the respect recognition and observance of human rights for all including women.While I was in hospital a few weeks ago I overheard an argument that made me ask a lot of

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Top Poets Speak on power-sharing agreement ZIMBABWEAN poets last Tuesday challenged the current political situation in a poetry session. Popular with young poets based in Harare and Chitungwiza the poetry slam, which ran under the theme "What next after GNU", saw poets being critical of the "complex" power-sharing agreement.Most poets argued in their verses that the GNU concept was "

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Shoe has been a performer for long . Here he was perfprming at HIFA in 2007. He uses his art to comment on social happennings.

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Shoes Robson Isaac is his name as it appears on his I.D, birth certificate passport and any other official document you might think of. However, his pseudonym is Shoeslambada which translate to the biggest SHOES you can ever fine on planet earth.He is a saggitarian. His poetry is the tortured language, the language of human rights, democracy and good governance. Currently he is the Programmes

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