Zimbo Jam, Harare, Zimbabwe • Since 2008
Search
Author:

Batsirai Chigama

Batsi is a spoken word artist and her work is featured in several poetry anthologies in the USA, England, Italy, New Zealand & Zimbabwe. In 2012 Batsirai became the first Zimbabwean to take part in the Italian Nosside World Poetry competition for which she was awarded a medal. Her poetry has taken her to Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Denmark and Italy, facilitating workshops as well as performing.
Music

No Slowing Down for Sistaz Open Mic

It’s been over five years now since the first monthly event bringing female artists together was held at the Book Café in Harare. Half a decade and a full complement of talented artists who have been bred on this platform later, the mic is still open and the fire of creativity is still burning.

batsiraic September 4, 2012
Books

Chirikure’s Vienna Song

Few Zimbabweans have dedicated as much of their lives to poetry as has Chirikure Chirikure. He continues to push his words to new heights and new spaces. With effect from June 2012 thousands of travellers going through Austria’s Vienna Airport will read his words and perhaps wonder who this man of words really is.

batsiraic July 6, 2012
Music

Things Keep Going Right for Rutendo Machiridza

In 2012 with her band Savannah Afros, Rutendo Machiridza won the national finals for Music Crossroads held on January 21, on Harare’sFirst Street. That was the beginning of a musically good year and period of progress for the singer.

batsiraic July 3, 2012
Books

Rotterdam Gig for Zimbabwe’s FlowChyld

She is known as FlowChyld in poetry and hip-hop circles. She is one of Zimbabwe’s most tenacious spoken-word artists and slam poets and next week she represents us all at the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam.

batsiraic June 8, 2012