Interview with Thomas Mapfumo and Uncle Ritchie

Zimbabwean-American artist Draze released a new single titled No, featuring legendary musician Thomas Mapfumo, ahead of Zimbabwe’s Independence Day celebrations on April 18.

In the smoky beer halls of Bulawayo in the late 1970s, a young man with restless feet and a voice that seemed to rise from the red earth itself began to rewrite what it meant to sing in Ndebele.

As a nation, we now openly embrace nudity, profanity, cheating and prostitution to alarming levels. Where is our Government? Before independence, people still had their dignity even though Zimbabwe was going through a lot of challenges through colonialism.

A week after he held a farewell concert in Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo has affirmed his desire to be buried in Zimbabwe when he passes away.

Exiled Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo has made it clear that he will not accept financial assistance from controversial tenderpreneur Wicknell Chivayo, describing his resources as "dirty money".