He may be singing in Shona, the local language spoken by some 80 percent of Zimbabweans, but his Shona is different. It's Street Shona. So what he really means, loosely translated, is that someone ...

LEARN Shona, an initiative aimed at preserving the Zimbabwean language and culture by Tarisiro Fundira, a Zimbabwean living in the diaspora, has collaborated with pop star Takura Shonhai in a new ...

A UK-based company has developed a Shona language learning app to help Zimbabwean parents who are settled in the diaspora teach their children the basics of the language. MJDK Ltd came up with the ...

In an effort to decolonise minds, Zimbabwean writers are translating popular English novels into Shona, one of the country’s main local languages. Two books by Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and ...

"In the 1960s the language was standardised throughout the entire country," Gappah told the BBC World Service. "So I'd be learning standard Shona at school but at home I'd be speaking Karanga ...

University of Oxford provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. When she submitted the manuscript to publishing houses in Zimbabwe in the early 1980s, they all turned it down ...