THE CULTURE CLOCK IS TICKING AGAIN
The Culture Clock Is Ticking Again By Panashe Julian Chengeta Changamire Awards return for year 11 and the red carpet has something to prove. The Changamire Festival Awards land on April 28 at The Backspace in Newlands. Eleven years in, that sentence alone means something. Most Zimbabwean cultural platforms don't make it past three. What's different this time isn't the volume or the scale. It's the posture. The artists in this year's nomination pool aren't jostling for a seat at the table. They're already seated, and they seem less interested in asking permission than they were a year ago. That shift — subtle but unmistakable — is what makes the 2026 edition feel less like a celebration and more like a temperature check. Eleven Y...