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Mukanya set for farewell show in the UK

The curtain is set to fall on a music journey as Zimbabwean icon Thomas Mapfumo, fondly known as "The Lion of Zimbabwe," prepares to retire from live performances. A farewell show slated for August 23rd in Birmingham, United Kingdom, will …

Published: 23 Jul 2025 at 14:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mukanya, the great Chimurenga guru

Born Thomas Tafirenyika Muchadura Mapfumo. The epitome of a Chimurenga music guru. With a career spanning over 50 years, Mapfumo, whom his followers call Gandanga, has not let them down. Listening to Thomas and the Blacks Unlimited is an a…

Published: 23 Jun 2025 at 11:09hrs | 304 | by Leonard Koni

Mapfumo demands return of seized vehicles

Exiled music icon Thomas Mapfumo is demanding the return of five vehicles seized by police in 2000. From his base in the United States, Mapfumo has claimed that the allegations of buying stolen BMWs were baseless and that those who sold hi…

Published: 25 Aug 2024 at 11:24hrs | 2439 | by Staff reporter

Chivayo begs Mukanya to accept his gifts

Wickell Chivayo strongly criticized journalist Hopewell Chin'ono in response to his remarks following musician Thomas Mapfumo's refusal of a contentious businessperson's car and home gifts.In an interview with Nehanda Radio last Monday, Ma…

Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 18:47hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean music is more than Chimurenga!

IN June 2023, the America-based National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) which organises arguably the most respected, well-known and much sought-after music awards in the world, the Grammy Awards (Grammys), introduced three …

Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | 25 | by Tonderai Chiyindiko

Mukanya postpones the release of his new album

CHIMURENGA music veteran, Thomas Mapfumo has postponed the release of his new album offering to allow the compilation to undergo meticulous mixing and other technical specifications.The album was recorded  in South Africa last year an…

Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Mukanya's open letter to Mnangagwa

DEAR President MnangagwaMy name is Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo the Chimurenga Music King. I am writing to you at this desperate hour to give you my free point of advice about the conditions in Zimbabwe. I am sure you can feel Zimbabwe going d…

Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 9 | by Doctor Thomas Mapfumo

Mukanya drafts 'retirement' plan

CHIMURENGA musician Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo says he is setting up an arts and culture centre in Domboshava on the outskirts of Harare as part of his departure from the mainstream music industry, which he has served for many decades.Last y…

Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:14hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Thomas Mapfumo claims $1,2 million defamation damages

United STATES-based Zimbabwean Chimurenga music guru, Thomas 'Mukanya' Mapfumo has approached the High Court seeking over $1,2 million from a local journalist for allegedly defaming him following the publication of an article claiming he w…

Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mukanya mourns Oliver Mtukudzi

Thomas Mapfumo has been paying tribute to "great musician" Oliver Mtukudzi, who died on Wednesday.Mapfumo was briefly in the same band as Mtukudzi, the Wagon Wheels, in the 1970s and gifted him one of his biggest hits: Rova Ngoma Mutavara.…

Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 11:17hrs | 2 | by ZimLive

Mukanya wades into Dembare chaos

LEGENDARY Chimurenga music exponent Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo, concluded his "Peace Tour" with a show in Chitungwiza last Friday but there seems to be no peace to talk about at his beloved club Dynamos where spears have been sharpened for y…

Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mukanya salutes Marabini

CHIMURENGA music icon Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo has heaped praise on Bulawayo Afro-pop musician, Jeys Marabini, for his music prowess and saluted him for putting Bulawayo on the music world map.Marabini shared the stage with Mukanya at Larg…

Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 05:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mukanya deal flops

EFFORTS to bring Dr Thomas Mapfumo to the Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa) that began yesterday, hit a snag after the Chimurenga icon asked for a hefty pay cheque.Mapfumo, who staged an emotional homecoming concert in Harar…

Published: 02 May 2018 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter

Why Tuku may be more loved than Mapfumo

After receiving a rousing reception at the Robert Mugabe International Airport earlier on Thursday, Thomas Mapfumo sat sedately on one of the chairs at the Star FM's studios, ready to give what would be his first interview back in Zimbabwe…

Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:07hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter

Big welcome for Mukanya

"MUKANYA woye, Mukanya woye," echoed chants across the foyers of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport on Wednesday evening as fans welcomed the legend who is back home after 14 years in the USA.He is Zimbabwe's music icon, the l…

Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 09:55hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter

Thomas Mapfumo's Danger Zone album 'terrible'

Thomas Mapfumo's much hyped recent release Danger Zone has the artiste playing Russian roulette not just in the name of the album - Danger Zone - but so too the zone in which he takes his music genre - Chimurenga.A 12 track effort, Danger …

Published: 10 Sep 2016 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Robert Mukondiwa

Mukanya was right, after all

In ghetto lingo they call it "kutonyora" while the proper Shona equivalent is "chioko muhomwe". But no matter how suitable, colourful and vivid the name might be, bribery is a double-edged sword threatening to shred Zimbabwe's moral fabric…

Published: 12 Apr 2014 at 13:54hrs | | by Rosenthal Mutakati Ghetto Blast

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