my reviews – Becoming The Muse

Of Kindred Octavia Butler Book Review

30 Aug 202030 Aug 2020

The August book of the month for Harare Book Club was Octavia Butler’s Kindred. Kindred was first published in 1979 and over 40 years after its publication, its still a…

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Of The Vagina Monologues Africa

25 Aug 202026 Aug 2020

Warning: The following article contains themes of an adult nature, we are all adults here, right? From the producers of the Zimbabwean adapatation of Eve Ensler’s episodic play The Vagina…

Of Amai – Holy Ten Lyrics And Translation

This track by Holy Ten struck a chord with me, the story has become familiar for a lot in our generation. Amai means mother in Shona. Reminds me of listening…

Of Ndaremerwa – Holy Ten Lyrics And Translation

24 Aug 202015 Sep 2020

Music like poetry is a mirror that reflects if not the nature of the artist then the world around the art. I have this song on my playlist by an…

Of Coffee With Mellow Creme’s True Love

5 Aug 20205 Aug 2020

If you were having coffee with me I would tell you that sometimes you need to stop; smell the coffee (well that’s if you love the aroma of freshly brewed…

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Of The Sleepover Bandits

The Sleepover Bandits are two convicts who break out of jail and begin a bank robbing spree whose Modus Operandi is that on the night before the heist, they sleepover…

Of Upload Series Review

26 Jul 202026 Jul 2020

Lockdown restrictions got tightened and now include a 6pm to 6am curfew so I had extra time to kill and binge-watch the first season of an Amazon Prime Original Series…

Of This Is Lockdown: Book and Blog Tour

15 Jul 202014 Jul 2020

2020 has been a weird year and if it were computer we would have hit the reset button, formatted the hard drive and loaded a new operating system with bug…

Of Ghetto Rules

14 Jul 202014 Jul 2020

Van Choga has just released a new album, an international collaboration with Ghanaian sensation Ay Poyoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM-faSmnfxk Its been less than a few hours since the track was dropped on…

Of Chido A Love Story Lyrics And Translation

MADE IN ZWE presents Chido… a love story by Munashe. This debut single was launched on Valentine ’s Day 2020 and it’s just about to get 100K views on YouTube…

Of The Sound Of Home

Walk with me down my playlist of 5 songs from Zimbabwe. The current most played song on my playlist is Jah Prayzah’s Kwayedza. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7X0lgMHhuQ https://twitter.com/Beatonm5/status/1266422100421685249?s=20 That mbira instrument has me…

Of Escaping Exodus: A Nicky Drayden Review

21 Jun 202021 Jun 2020

Escaping Exodus is Nicky Drayden's third book and this time, its not just a standalone novel but the first book of the Escaping Exodus series. I had never heard the…