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Zexie Manatsa Singer/songwriter Zimbabwean music legend, singer, songwriter, and bass player. He is known for his several hits released while fronting the Green Arrows. Zexie was born on 1 January…

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#NAMA Legends @40: Tsitsi Dangarembga

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Tsitsi Dangarembga Film Producer/Writer A pioneering female artist in the area of filmmaking, playwriting and authoring novels, Tsitsi Dangarembga was born in 1959 in Mutoko. Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), which was…

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#NAMA Legends @40: Thomas Mapfumo citation

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Thomas Mapfumo Musician Since joining his first band, the Zutu Brothers, as a singer at the age of 16 Thomas Tafienyika Mapfumo has grown to become one of Zimbabwe’s most…

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#NAMA Legends @40: Tapfuma Gutsa citation

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Tapfuma Gutsa Visual Artist Born in 1956, Tapfuma Gutsa is one of the visual artists who received formal training in sculpting. Domiciled in Harare, he studied sculpture with others like Cornelius…

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#NAMA Legends @40: Sylvester Mubayi citation

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Sylvester Mubayi Visual Artist Belonging to the internationally acclaimed class of the first generation stone sculptors, Sylvester Mubayi was born in 1942. He joined the Tengenenge Sculpture Community in 1967 as one…

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#NAMA Legends @40: Susan Chenjerai citation

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Susan Chenjerai Actress Belonging to that golden generation of theatre practitioners who practised what was then known as sketches (skits) that usually spiced musical performances, Susan Chenjerai was, before abandoning…

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#NAMA Legends @40: Stephen Chigorimbo citation

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Stephen Chigorimbo Director Born in 1951, Stephen Chigorimbo began film making in 1974 after landing a part alongside Christopher Lee in the movie Dracula. He quickly found himself behind the…

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#NAMA Legends @40: Stella Rambisai Chiweshe citation

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Stella Rambisai Chiweshe Musician Stella Chiweshe is undoubtedly Zimbabwe’s Queen of mbira and one of the country’s foremost cultural export. Accompanying her swooping vocals on mbira, Stella Chiweshe has taken the…

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#NAMA Legends @40: Shimmer Chinodya citation

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Shimmer Chinodya Writer Belonging to a rare class of exceptional writers, Shimmer Chinodya is a novelist born in 1964 in the City of Gweru. He can be classified as an…

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#NAMA Legends @40: Rashid Jogee citation

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Rashid Jogee Visual Artist The late Rashid Jogee was born in Bulawayo. He started painting at the age of nineteen and between 1973 to1976 Study of textile design at Mzilikazi…