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 ...

In an effort to decolonise minds, Zimbabwean writers are translating popular English novels into Shona, one of the country’s main local languages. Two books by Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and ...

LEARN Shona, an initiative aimed at preserving the Zimbabwean language and culture by Tarisiro Fundira, a Zimbabwean living in the diaspora, has collaborated with pop star Takura Shonhai in a new ...

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 ...

University of Oxford provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. When she submitted the manuscript to publishing houses in Zimbabwe in the early 1980s, they all turned it down. Dangarembga ...

According to the department school principals are allowed to apply for foreign languages to be taught at their respective schools. On Monday the Patriotic Alliance (PA) marched to Esikhisini Primary ...

Musician and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo is 80 years old this month. The man, often dubbed the "Lion of Zimbabwe", is still hugely popular in his home country, despite having gone into exile and ...