Celebrated mbira musician, Hope Masike, has released the poetry video for "Ndimutsewo Zvakanaka," a poem from her second poetry anthology Dzevabvazera.
Recited from the female perspective, the poem is interlaced with tongue-in-cheek exuberance and supported by baiting innuendo.
Ndimutsewo Zvakanaka is appellant in it's femininity, with suggestive undertones towards subtle corrective approaches between the gammer and the gaffer towards the ultimate enforcement of the listener attaining the peak experience wherein they "do it right."
Directed by Dream Hous Productions auteur, Jonathan Samkange, Ndimutsewo Zvakanaka’s video serves as a transdisciplinary convergence between Hope Masike's literary, musical and visual pursuits.
The artist's conversations and publications around sensuality in Chidzimbahwe have made a shift to decriminalize the colonial enterprise’s criminalization of the black body, notably the woman’s fetishisation and debasement, by using poetry and song to rediscover the fulfilment all black women can find in the reclamation and decolonization of their own flesh.
Embedded within this burgeoning decolonization of the black body lies the use of language, as the poetry is executed in Shona, which intensifies with each verse until the poem’s climactic crescendo.
Ndimutsewo Zvakanaka's visual release also serves as the announcement of a series of reading tours Hope Masike will be having across six provinces in the remainder of the year.
You can checkout the video for "Ndimutsewo Zvakanaka" below:
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