Stories
Environment
Inside the Fight to Stop Illegal Sand Mining on the Manyame River
Riverside communities and environmental groups are pushing back as sand poaching accelerates erosion.
Environment
Solar Boom: How Load-Shedding Turned Zimbabwe Into a Rooftop Solar Nation
Years of power cuts have quietly made Zimbabwe one of Africa's fastest-growing solar markets.
Diaspora
Inside the Zimbabwean Church Networks Holding London Together
How congregations became the diaspora's real social safety net.
Diaspora
How Joburg’s Zim Community Built Its Own Stokvel System
Informal savings clubs are quietly funding weddings, funerals and school fees back home.
Diaspora
Meet the Second-Gen Zimbabweans Reclaiming Shona Through TikTok
A new generation is teaching itself the language their parents didn't have time to pass on.
Culture
Thomas Mapfumo’s Chimurenga Legacy, Revisited for a New Generation
Young producers are sampling the sound of liberation for the TikTok era.
Culture
Where to Find Real Sadza in Every Diaspora City
Our reader-sourced map of the restaurants that taste like home.
Culture
The Stone Sculptors of Chitungwiza Are Selling to the World — Online
How Shona sculpture found new markets through Instagram, not galleries.