URBAN
DICTIONARY
SCENE
placed in laws and
constitutions.
Art Speaks louder than
words!
AFRICA IS A GREAT
COUNTRY
By Bryanna Chifunyise
By Elspeth Chimedza
As young as some of us are,
at times it can be hard to
interpret a conversation
when everybody is
speaking gibberish, right?
Well lucky for you, I go to
lengths to research what
people are saying when
they are texting, (forgetting
that some of us do not
speak short hand).In this
issue it’s all relative. So
what’s the word for mum
by the way?
ARTIVISM
Word: Quan (formerly queen)
Meaning: Mother
Example: “My quan is ferusing
for me to jump out!”
Word: Lala
Meaning: Father
Example: “Dude if your lala finds
out, you’re toast!”
Word: Relies
Meaning: Relatives
Example: “Sorry Tee can’t make
it for the movie. Got some relies
coming by our cabin.”
TEXT
Lol- laugh out loud
Smh- shaking my head
Omg-oh my gosh
Only weird people believe that
art speaks to people right? No!
Out and about on the arts scene,
I attended the FLAME Pamberi’s
“ Artivism Workshop” which
aimed to discuss the use of art as
a c hannel for activism. Different
women within the journalism,
music, theatre and activism
spheres joined together at the
Book Café, giving definitions to
terms and how they feel about
different “rights”, causes, mainly
about gender-based violence and
female empowerment.
The round table included singers
Cindy Munyavi, Clare Njakure,
Kessia Mangosha, theatre actress
Rutendo Chigudu, poet Batsirai
Chigama, representatives from
the One Billion Rising
organization and other women
from the different artistic
disciplines.
The most important thing to
come out of this discussion was
how best can all these women
use their talents to help structure
a movement that will influence
change in society pertaining to
issues of gender based violence
and the plight of the girl child
and woman, since this is still a
great challenge despite all the
feministic agendas that have
been structured and have been
Groove Magazine Zimbabwe
For anyone who has a flare for
visual art, this was one
exhibition that you would have
wanted to attend. Imagine a
European viewing your
continent from a different eye?
Well, renowned Swedish
photographer, Jens Assur, (who
unfortunately did not manage
to make it to Zimbabwe as he
fell ill), however was
represented by a colleague,
Alex, took journalists through
an exhibition of how this great
continent of Africa might as
well be one country as one
could see several similarities
from different cities on the
continent.
The purpose of the exhibition
was to highlight the spreading
growth of Africa in terms of
urbanization. The title in itself
is very provocative and
somewhat eye opening to the
African who might have always
separated themselves due to
geographical borders, ethnicity
and religion only to find that
we all practically live in cities
that are so similar, although
others more developed than the
next. Gaborone, Kigali,
Johanessburg, Lusaka, Cairo,
Monrovia, Maputo and our
majestic Victoria Falls, each
city felt like home and that is
why “Africa is A Great
Country”.
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