Story telling is a big part of our traditions, and music.
Which are your favourite ‘story songs’ from Zimbabwe?
A thread of some top faves here. Add your own.

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Mukanya and the mysterious case of the woman who tried to marry off a local girl to her son, an actual snake!

Marko Sibanda, reporting live from a local hotel (the no star motel with communal bathrooms). Wild scenes: matauro achidonha vashandi vachidzosera. Santana called in to restore order.

Baba Handishaye naBaba Rutsoka: ah, the old story of two business partners falling out. In this case, whose dogs got the mhembwe, and whose got the rabbit?

Mukoma Ketai and his clever telling of the split of the Kassongo Band

A boy squanders his inheritence, and ends up roaming the land playing his Chipendani, till he finds work herding cattle.
Chipendani, by the Super Sounds, outta Gweru. (The bass man was proper fire. In fact, the instrumentation here was top tier)

“Kurumidzai mhani mumire pamanga muri musandipedzera nguva yangu...”
You need a judge like Gava, who had no personal interest in the matter and zero time to waste.

Mutongi Gava - Joseph Mutero and the Zvishavane Sounds

Woman, with 5 mischievous ghosts in her luggage, is on her way to Harare to kill her daughter. Then she has transport problems and her hungry ghosts end up eating her.

Never carry evil spirits in your luggage, especially Tula, Bechulude and their siblings.

Mangoma Express.

Man digs a hole in the garden, wife falls in and turns into pork. The man orders his son to help him cut up the meat, and sing while at it. Simbimbino’s dad was a proper maniac.

(Video performed here by Biggie Tembo Jr)

Chikwari Handichauuuuyi...horait horait horait no problem

Lameck Moyo and Amabhubesi Amnyama