By The Africa Report Danai Gurira’s portrayal of Wakanda’s warrior chief Okoye in Black Panther has helped rewrite how Africans, particularly African women, are portrayed on international screens. The role also rocketed Gurira to household-name status. She has been writing about the continent for decades, and in 2012 she published The Convert, a play which
By chapelboro.com Zweli’s Piri Piri Kitchen – named for the piri piri pepper, a variety of chili pepper native to Africa that is sometimes referred to as a “bird’s eye chili” – might be the only Zimbabwean restaurant in the United States. According to chef, co-owner and namesake of Zweli’s, Zwelibanzi Williams, it’s a staple in the cuisine
By The Coastal Times AUSTRALIA: Zimbabwean author Jill Baker will discuss her new book at Falcon e-Library on February 15 at noon. Baker has had a long career in radio and television presentation and production and is an accomplished public speaker. The Horns, the first book in her Zambezi |Trilogy, is a compelling and deeply
Evening Standard A female engineer with British Airways is helping inspire other women to fix jets. Tsungi Maruta, 22, fell in love with aircraft from the age of five when her mother Violet was regularly flying between London and the family home in Harare, Zimbabwe. After moving to the UK with her family at six,
By Staff Reporter THE African Medallion Group (AMG) has signed a coin dealer agreement with the South African Mint Company, a subsidiary of the South African Reserve Bank. AMG, which completed a take-over of Pagliari Group and Cape Mint in May last year, is now a re-seller and redistributor of numismatic coins from the SA
By UK Bureau LEEDS: Council officials here have vowed backing for the Zimbabwe Leeds Community (ZLC), offering support for the group as it works to unite Zimbabweans and help with their integration into this West Yorkshire city. Established in 2016, ZLC now boasts a membership of more than 200 Zimbabweans living in Leeds and nearby
By motherjones.com Novuyo Rosa Tshuma describes the mood, after Zimbabwe won its independence from Britain in 1980, as a “release of breaths long held.” But that optimism gave way to a reign of terror. From 1983 through 1987, an estimated 20,000 civilians were killed by forces loyal to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe in what became known as Gukurahundi,
By The Pretoria East Rekord SOUTH AFRICA: Local Zimbabweans took to the street of the Pretoria CBD on Thursday in protest against the killing of their “innocent countrymen”. The marchers gathered at Burgers Park where they began their march to the UN head office in Pretoria. The marchers were joined by members of African Christian
By So Foot.com FRENCH second division side Le Havre can count on its man in form: Tino Kadewere who arrived from Sweden last summer. This 23-year-old Zimbabwean international is the most expensive transfer in the club’s history but that is not enough to impress him as he has a mission more perilous to complete: it
By The Namibian IT was under sad circumstances that Mandume Ndemufayo Avenue in Windhoek was last Friday painted green, red and yellow, when a group of about 60 Zimbabweans took to the streets to protest against the continued plight of their compatriots back in Zimbabwe. A petition, under the theme ‘Zimbabwe is Bur-ning’ read outside
By BBC.com LONDON: Worcester Warriors prop Farai Mudariki has agreed a new one-year contract with the Premiership club. The 23-year-old Zimbabwe tight-head, who is yet to make his Premiership debut, first signed in July from French side Stado Tarbes Pyrenees. Prior to that, Mudariki had two seasons with Top 14 club Castres’ academy side. He scored a
By Agencies DURBAN A small group of foreign nationals staged a picket outside Durban’s City Hall on Saturday in protest against the Zimbabwean government’s military crackdown and Internet shutdown. Civil group African Solidarity Network (Asonet) organised the picket in a show of solidarity with Zimbabweans. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s recent announcement of a 200% fuel hike
By Sports Reporter UK: Zimbabwe-born heavyweight boxer Dereck Chisora might still be struggling to come to terms with his brutal knockout loss to Dillian Whyte at the O2 Arena in London last month in December but will not be retiring from boxing, according to his trainer Don Charles. There have been suggestions that Chisora is
By The Vinyl Factory PARIS-BASED Nyami Nyami Records is reissuing New Tutenkhamen’s rare 1979 album I Wish You Were Mine, this February on vinyl. Formerly known as Tutenkhamen, the seven-piece band blended soul and jazz with ska, funk and traditional Zimbabwean township rhythms. Though New Tutenkhamen released various commercially successful singles during the late ’70s, the
By Paidashe Mandivengerei SOUTH Africa-based Zimbabwean reggae and dancehall sensation, Buffalo Souljah has challenged prominent business persons to support the local music industry. In a thought-provoking Instagram post, the award-winning artiste called on local tycoons to fund artists and promote the growth of the music industry. Buffalo Souljah singled out Wicknell Chivhayo, Genius Ginimbi Kadungure,
By MailOnline.com LONDON: A wife was strangled to death by her husband who then hanged himself in their home in what police are treating as a murder-suicide. Simbiso Aretha Moula, 39, and her husband Garikayi Moula, 51, – both originally from Zimbabwe – were both found dead in their home at their home in Lower
By The Telegraph (UK) THE self-proclaimed “Pablo Escobar of the falcon egg trade” is facing another lengthy jail sentence after being caught at Heathrow airport with a stash of 19 rare eggs strapped to his chest. Jeffrey Lendrum, 56, a prolific egg smuggler, was stopped in June last year with the eggs, as well as
By the Irish Times Ireland may be known as the land of céad míle fáilte (a hundred thousand welcomes), but a report in the last months of 2018 suggests more needs to be done to make it a welcoming place for LGBT migrants. Far From Home: Life as an LGBT Migrant in Ireland, published in
By UK Bureau Zimbabwe Leeds Community (ZLC) is one of the many organisations working to help unite Zimbabwean diasporas and assisting in the exiles’ integration into the respective communities they have settled across the world. Established in 2016 and now boasting of a membership of 300-plus, ZLC holds its second elective annual general meeting (AGM)
By Forbes Africa.com His beginnings were in a two-bedroom apartment in a South London estate he shared with his mother, aunt and cousins. That’s all Zimbabwe-born Percelle Ascott had, besides a childhood filled with beautiful memories. “I remember riding my bike everywhere, playing football and making treehouses. All the kids who grew up on my
