"We are pleased to announce a unique fusion of Indigenous Voices from Zimbabwe and Canada. Crystal DJ Kwe Favel of Wax Warriors Record Label has partnered with Claudia Wegener of Radio Continental Drift to release “Radio Remixes Voices of Binga.” After almost a year of audio correspondence across continents, the Aboriginal electronica digital album is now available for purchase at most online digital music stores.
A new genre, Electronic Drum Music will make you travel far in roots, rhythm & rapture to a history of a future where continents and cultures join again. The Album’s audio storytelling revitalizes indigenous knowledge and language for starving nations of listeners. Timeless, and wise beyond its years - the teachings you’ll receive through Indigenous Voices will heal the tribal spirit in you. You don’t want to miss the new soulful way of blending cultures through radio remixes. "

13 Beads And Baskets Feat. B. Mudimba And V. Mwembe - DJ Kwe

These clips from a currently on-going audio journal of conversations in Zambia and Zimbabwe are broadcast here as a preview for forthcoming playlists and full-length recordings to be shared on archive.org as the journey on the ground continues. The above title cites a track and poem by Blackheat in Harare featured here to open the preview and the listening wires to, in and across the region. Beyond making African cultural history and knowledge available to on-line listeners, the interviews with artist, activists and producers form a research for creative media projects and training for women in the area aiming to foster and multiply local media production. 

This playlist forms now part of “The Women Sing at Both sides of the Zambezi”, an archive of life-story-telling by African women. 
For more information and how you can join, 
read here:
http://both-sides-of-the-zambezi.tumblr.com/


featured artists and producers 
(numbers refer to tracks):

Blackheat DeShanti, poet and band, Harare (1) 
DJ Petronella, Joy fm Lusaka(2, 10)
Mulenga Mulenga, visual artist (VAC) Lusaka (5, 9)
Yvonne Sishuwa aka Winter, Bittersweet Poetry Zambia (6)
Lydia Mwale (Chaisa, Lusaka) (12)
Mwenya Muyeba, Flava fm, Kitwe (13)
Mrs. Chitalunyama ZNBC archive (3)
Mrs. Namunkolo ZNBC AV sales (7)
Ruvimbo Tenga, producer (15, 21, 26)
Annie Mpalume, photographer, Daily News (17,19)
Chiwoniso Maraire, mbira artist, Book Café Harare (18, 20, 23)
Batsirai Chigama, poet, Book Café Harare (22, 25)

See also:
http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/page/69865/en  DTR
http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/page/69595/en Poetry from Zim & Zam


16 Blackheat - Mother Earth

17 Annie - gaining strength

20 Chiwoniso - she s mbira

23 Chiwoniso - collonized demonized

24 Blackheat - Mother Earth is crying

Short excerpt of a 40 minutes live improv 
15 October 2019 @ Les Instants Chavirés
Sharing the bill with Kate Carr, a concert produced by La Fabrique Agitée
https://www.instantschavires.com/kate-carrvalerie-vivancos/

Valerie Vivancos Live Instants Chavirés  15 Oct 2019 (excerpt)

DIAMIN, aka Amapola Ibieta, Deejay, vinyl collector and part of the foundation of the Djs collective Family Affair, born in Chile and based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She released several podcasts for LYL Radio, The Ransom Note and NTS Radio.

Diamin [06.08.2020]

Hallo Listeners! 
This playlist of Voices from Binga forms part of “The Women Sing at Both sides of the Zambezi”, an archive of life-story-telling established by African women for their sisters, and brothers, near and far. The archive currently contains more than 70 interviews with women in Arts, Culture and Media from Zambia and Zimbabwe. It forms a start for audio-visual–radio and creative media projects with women in the Zambezi region aiming to pass the skills of digital productions and the tools of their distribution in to the hands of the storytellers. 
The online publication of the recordings is in process. Each week more links to on-line audio will become available for global listeners to play and download the recordings under creative commons license. The collections from Binga, Bulawayo, Harare, Kitwe, Livingstone, Lusaka, Masvingo, Mazabuka and Monze are a beginning. The archive is open … and the Zambezi is a long stream… 
For more details and how you can join, 
read here  http://both-sides-of-the-zambezi.tumblr.com/ 

The playlist features soundscapes from Binga and clips from interviews with: Linda Mudimba and Sihle Ndlovu, both National Volunteers with the Basilwizi Trust, Jossam Munkuli, leader of the musicians group Tonga Simonga, Simudenda Bertha, a bead-making artist, Babara Mudimba, a basket weaver, the teachers, Florence Munsaka from Damba, and Muleya Elita from Sachilaba, Janet and Luyando Muyalali, Mr Kelias, deputy head of Siachilaba Primary School, and Abigal Muleya, from the ZUBO Trust. For more details read here: http://both-sides-of-the-zambezi.tumblr.com/notes-to-the-archive 

Basilwizi Trust is a cultural advocacy organization for the communities of the Zambezi valley, the Tonga people who were displaced from their ancestry homeland during the construction of the Kariba Dam in the 1950s.

THE PEOPLE OF THE GREAT RIVER
The Tonga people who inhabit the areas in the Zambezi Valley on Zimbabweʼs northern border, are descended from those who were forcibly removed from their homes and fields in the valley in 1957 to make way for the rising waters of the mighty Zambezi River after the filling of Kariba Dam. The dam brought hydro-electric power and wealth to the country, but passed over those who were displaced, leaving them in the dark ages of exclusion for some decades after. Having lost everything their culture survived strongly as a driving force of self-assertion, resilience and development.

http://www.basilwizi.org/
http://www.mulonga.net
http://www.facebook.com/tongaonline
http://www.zubo.org/
http://www.servus.at/argezim/
http://www.kunzwana.net/category/tags/about


29 Sihle Ndlovu - times are changed

28 Siachilaba Baobab

Bbindawuko Banakazi Fishing Cooperative Ltd. is a project initiated by Zubo Trust, a women empowerments organisation in Binga. The BB- Coop are the first women to regain fishing rights on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. The coop counts 10 female members and two male employees and was legally registered for kapenta fishing in 2011. In this recording from 2018, Zubo board chair, Danisa Mudiumba talks about this flagship project by Zubo Trust that marks the foundation and early history of the rural women economic empowerment organisation. Find audio documentaion with and by Bbindawuko Banakazi at the Internet Archive, archive.org #ZuboTrust 
https://archive.org/details/Bbindawuko_Banakazi_Fishing_Coop
https://archive.org/details/bbindawuko_banakazi_fishing_coop_202011

Zubo Radio

Danisa Mudimba about Bbindawuko Banakazi Coop and Zubo Trust

ZUBO Trust brings Women together for self-empowerment. Zubo is a Women’s Organization based in Binga working among the rural women of the Zambezi valley in Zimbabwe since 2009. Zubo has become widely recognized for its successful work empowering the rural women in income-generating projects, which utilize the natural resources of the remote area such as Fish, Kapenta, Ilala, Baobab or Moringa. In 2012 Zubo made national headlines by launching the first Women Fishery Project on the Kariba Lake.

Danisa Mudimba about Bbindawuko Banakazi Coop and Zubo Trust

RADIO ZUBO

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