In Shona slang, kete means cool, good, great. We would therefore be aptly stating facts if we said HIFA ended kete kete with Salif Keita’s main stage show. Actually, that’s a lie. The last show of HIFA 2010 was Winky D’s midnight reggae fest on the Coca Cola Green. Both shows were jamming highs that will go down as some of HIFA’s best gigs ever.

It’s not often that you see people crying after an entertainment event and theatre is entertainment right? It was a different scenario at the Standard Theatre at the Harare International Festival of the Arts yesterday. The venue was filled to the brim as has become quite normal, and at the end of the show many in the audience cried. Such was the emotional atmosphere that engulfed the auditorium during the play, Yours abundantly, from Zimbabwe.

The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and Zimbabwe German Society/ Goethe-Zentrum Harare have partnered with HIFA this year to bring two shows to the Harare International Festival of the Arts. As you will see, this move is a major transgression that includes much energetic dancing…

Prolonged periods of laughter reduce physical, mental and emotional stress- but why wait until you hear a joke to burst out into a fit of mirth? Dr Katarina from India specializes in teaching people how to laugh and he’s doing just that in a series of workshops at HIFA.

It’s four days into the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA), the most anticipated annual event on the Zimbabwean arts calendar. The new blood at The Zimbo Jam journalistically attacked the festival environs and spoke to some of the people attending the arts showcase. They heard varied opinions about the festival…

Yesterday Mbare residents going about their neighbourhood found some Dutch dudes and a team of Zimbawean painters scraping old paint off one of their blocks of flats. They were curious. Then the team started painting the wall blue and the curiosity rose…

Performing  at  HIFA  is not strange  for singer- songwriter, Hope Masike  but  her gracing  the stage  at this year’s edition  will introduce a first-  for the  first  time,  Hope   will be  performing on the  Global Stage as an  entity showcasing pieces under what  she  has  christened as Kuwe music.