Editor's note: From April 13-19 2021, Blessing Sibanda will be hosting the @DigiAfricanLang rotating Twitter account, which explores how technology can be used to revitalize African languages. Read ...

Two books by Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga are some of the latest novels to be translated into Shona. The two titles are part of the trilogy by Dangarembga which ...

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" - this famous quote from George Orwell's satirical novel has found such resonance in Zimbabwe that author Petina Gappah has ...

I’m not Shona, but as a kid, I went to schools where learning Shona was compulsory. And I remember the moment I decided I’d had enough: Your father’s father? Sekuru. Your mother’s brother? Also Sekuru ...

In Zimbabwe's Shona language, mental illness is known as chirwere chepfungwa or kupenga. Before British colonial settlers arrived in 1890, traditional healers (n'anga) played an important role in ...