Nkosiyazi Kan Kanjiri: Insights

General Chiwenga is not ambitious. Social media has constructed narratives to portray him as such, but he is not. Who remembers 2019, when Chiwenga returned from China on a Chinese jet, looking sharp and pronouncing his Rs clearly? Professor Jonathan Moyo commented that all was not well in ZANU PF, noting that no government official was there to receive him except his family. Moyo predicted this signaled an imminent clash between ED and Chiwenga. Six years later, nothing has happened. Yet, social media narratives about a rift between Chiwenga and ED continue to be peddled. I have struggled to believe these rumors about an ED-Chiwenga rift, partly because we have waited six years for the escalation Moyo predicted would happen “soon,” but it never did. Also, Chiwenga doesn’t strike me as ambitious. This doesn’t mean Chiwenga doesn’t want to be president—who wouldn’t, as vice president? But Chiwenga is naively patient, waiting for his turn to ascend to the throne after ED. Until rec...

  With Ndini Mukudzei, Jah Prayzah has introduced himself. Sounds unfair, right, for an artist who has been in the game since 2007, won numerous awards and most importantly, has won the hearts of many. I have been wondering too. In fact torn between whether Jah Prayzah is  reintroducing himself or reminding us who is. It downed on me, Eureka style, that he is neither reintroducing himself nor reminding us who is. He is introducing himself.  Ndini Mukudzei is not just an album. It is a statement. Both a personal and musical one. It is an identity confirmation that, you may have known me since Rudo Nerunyararo in 2007 as Jah Prayzah, but, “I am Mukudzei. But, also, it is an affirmation, rather than a claim, that musically, I am King of the traditional sound. Ndini Mukudzei is a confirmation of one who has discovered himself after years of soul searching, jumping from one sound to another, to finally find his place of comfort, the traditional sound! Jah Prayzah is an experim...