One of Africa’s all time great musicians, Salif Keita, will close off the 2010 edition of the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) on a high note with a long awaited main stage performance at the six day arts extravaganza set to explode into activity in Harare at the end of April.

After we posted the story about the anti-piracy street protest by Carl Joshua Ncube the comments started pouring in, with many saying that music in Zimbabwe is too expensive which is why they do not buy original CDs.

It was another glamourous black tie event at REPS Theatre on March 6th as the Repertory Players gathered to honour their best and brightest at the 12th edition of the REPS AFDIS Awards for Excellence.

It promises to be mad crazy fun. Zimbabwe’s undisputed queen of mbira, Chiwoniso Maraire comes together with jazz/rock virtuoso, Max Wild for two homecoming shows in Harare that will bring together accomplished musicians from four different countries.

Sam Mtukudzi and Owen Chimhare were buried this afternoon at Warren Hills Cemetery in Harare. Their graves were, as the two had lived in the last years of their lives, side by side.

When Carl Joshua Ncube set out to raise awareness about the seriousness of the piracy issue in Zimbabwe by living on First Street for a week his intentions were noble, but there were many who didn’t seem to quite get it, including the police who last minute told him that he could only protest from 5AM to 6PM and then leave the street.