Becoming The Muse

Catching up over a virtual cup of coffee and the 19th edition of Sanganai/Hlanganani Dzimbabwe Tourism Expo 2026 in ZimbabweRead on Becoming The Muse

Reviewing Reacher, an action-crime drama series based on the Jack Reacher Book Series and starring Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher. Read on Becoming The Muse

A look at some of the challenges faced in artisanal mining in Zimbabwe.Read on Becoming The Muse

Reviewing The Librarian: The Next Chapter Season 2, a fantasy adventure series.Read on Becoming The Muse

Reviewing Silo Season 3 a sci-fi dystopian drama series starring Rebecca Ferguson as Juliette NicholsRead on Becoming The Muse

Reviewing Season 2 of The Gentlemen. A Guy Ritchie action comedy series starring Theo James as Eddie Horniman and Kaya Scodelario as Susan "Susie" Glass.Read on Becoming The Muse

Reviewing Winky D's new album Tête à Tête, a roots reggae socially charged musical project. Read on Becoming The Muse

A tribute post to Dolly Parton The Queen Of Country Musicfrom Zimbabwe to Dollywood, growing up in the 80s and 90s read on Becoming The Muse

Review Lucky a 2026 crime thriller miniseries, adapted from a novel of the same name starring Anya Taylor-Joy as Lucy a conartist on the run after a heist gone badRead on Becoming The Muse

Reviewing Ann Droid a British comedy series created, written by and starring Diane Morgan as Linda who is an Ann Droid ElderCare Robot for Sue an elderly widow... in Black Mirror-esque a show about ageing, life and death.Read on Becoming The Muse

Reviewing Season 2 of X-Men '97 a television series based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the X-Men.The X-Men must face the inevitability of their greatest challenge in the past, present and future....Read on Becoming The Muse

Reviewing the 2026 supernatural thriller limited series Possession written by Karla Crome and starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Claudia McKenzie with Jonny Lee Miller (Oliver Connaught) and Sheldon Shepherd (Cudjoe East) in tale that spans 300 years and set in Jamaica and Bristol.Read on Becoming The Muse

Reviewing the 2026 scifi blockbuster created and written by Steven Spielberg and starring Emily BluntRead on ⁠⁠Becoming The Muse⁠

Catching up on amahappenings in Zimbabwe... with leopard extra special brew a Delta Corporation traditional beer similar to super Chibuku...Read on Becoming The Muse

Reviewing the action comedy series Ride or Die starring Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer.Read on Becoming The Muse

How the book of James in bible became Jakobo in the Shona Translation Bible Read on ⁠Becoming The Muse⁠

Why would you buy a watch that costs 8 figures or more?Exploring the haute horology world of ultra-expensive timepieces, is it ego, status symbols or there's a cold financial logic happening away from the eyes of the common marketsRead on Becoming The Muse

Reviewing Backrooms the 2026 sci-fi psychological horror film Backrooms that stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Clark a broken man spiralling down the unknowable maze of liminal space.It is a film adaptation of the Backrooms based on Kane Parsons's videos in his feature-length directorial debut. Read on Becoming The Muse

Majuru and indigenous knowledge systems ecological indicators...The patterns of soldier termites can forecast weather and seasons.Read on Becoming The Muse

Unpacking the complexity of legacy and Thomas Mapfumo's acceptance of a million-dollar offer.Can the intention of an action be separated from the symbolism of an action?Read on Becoming The Muse

How junior parliament mirrors the values displayed by the parliament it imitates and the structures of governance thatpromote patronage over equitable resource distribution.Mbudzi kudya mufenje hunyanyina... Read on Becoming The Muse

The girl in a room filled with broken glass a story told by Sarah in From Series Season 1 Episode 2 analysing the metaphor and what it potentially foreshadows in the mystery box show

coffee with milestones unlocked in WordPress blogging and catch up on happenings in Zimbabwe a teapot-shaped country which recently gazetted the Constitution Amendment Act No 3 and the Medical Services Amendment Act Read on Becoming The Muse

Reviewing Obsession the 2026 supernatural horror movie about a young man who makes a wish with unexpected consequences.Made on a budget of $750 000 its grossed over 300 million making 8th highest grossing film of 2026Read on Becoming The Muse

The Four Of Us a South African soapie telenovela produced bt Tshedza Pictures and dual released on eTV and NetflixThe show replaces etvScandal on the 8pm weekday primetime slotRead on Becoming The Muse

Unpacking The Polygamist opening sequence with a fish and a bird circling each other Read on Becoming The Muse

The long shadow cast by corruption...Almost all our service delivery challenges can be traced back to national budget allocation ending up in someone's pocket.Read on Becoming The Muse

A virtual cup of coffee where we talk about the Football World Cup and the unity of African countries and the shared traditional values that grow in "othering" Read on Becoming The Muse

Review Season 4 of FROM. A mystery box sci-fi supernatural horror television from the creators of LOST starring Harold Perrineau as Boyd Stevens.Read on Becoming The Muse

Reviewing Season 2 of The Agency.A spy thriller series starring Michael Fassbender as MartianRead review on Becoming The Muse

How long would it take Sam and Dean Winchester from Supernatural to solve the mystery of FROM?An imaginative breakdown of how long and how Sam and Dean Winchester would solve the case of the town of From.Read on Becoming The Muse

In many African cultures, the dead are never really gone. They reside in the hearts and minds of those who remember them and our identity is tied into our past.But....How do we know who we are if we do not know where we came from? What happens when the last person who remembers things is gone?Read on Becoming The Muse

We live life with no continuity plan except for a graceful exit, no continuity no successionThe funeral economy that invests more in death than in living Read on Becoming The Muse

A tale about two creatives in love and the sacrifices we make when we make the choice between Passion vs PaychequeRead on Becoming The Muse

A coffeshare conversation about the obligation successful family members are burdened with to take care of everyone else... Black Tax and African communal values of UbuntuRead on Becoming The Muse

Reviewing Widow's Bay an Apple TV comedy horror televison show starring Mathew Rhys as Tom Loftis mayor of Widow's Bay a New England island town with an ancient curseRead on Becoming The Muse

Comparing The Polygamist TV adaptation to the book its based on The Polygamist a 2012 novel by Sue Nyathi..Setting, Narrative Voice and The Women in The Polygamist..Read article on Becoming The Muse

Navigating cconnections in an era of algorithm driven outrage and click bait#winterabc26read on becoming the muse

When we used to tell stories by the fireside.The lost art of African Storytelling.#winterabc26Read on Becoming The Muse

The evolution of books and African futurism.What will books look like in the future?#WinterABCRead on Becoming The Muse

Reviewing The Polygamist a South African Netflix telenovela adapted from a book by Sue Nyathi.Starring Sdumo Mtshali as Jonasi Gomora

What do you do when you receive a Copyright Claim email?Read on Becoming The Muse

Are you aware of the information your digital footprint is giving away about you? The Real You?#Winterabc26 Digital Identity & PrivacyRead on Becoming The Muse

Navigating AI as a creative... how do you stay true in world where AI is taking over the creative enterprise?"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."#winterABC26Read on Becoming The Muse

A Faust cautionary tale of AI as a cross roads demon and the bargain we struck... AI for the Creative — Is artificial intelligence a tool, or a threat, for African storytellers? Winterabc26Read on Becoming The Muse

Africa and AI decolonising datasetsIs AI in Africa a buzzword used in speeches and at conferences and summits ?Who controls Africa's data?Read on Becoming The Muse

Door poetry... DoetryLife as a corridor of choices with doors as a metaphor... to keep knocking or to walk awayRead on Becoming The Muse

Preserving African languages before they become museum pieces.Language is a key part of identity, and colonial systems set out to wipe out our language and culture"A language that cannot describe today will eventually be remembered only in yesterday."WinterABC2026Read on Becoming The Muse

An ode to home... outside looking in, this is what home looks like.A social commentary poem about life in Zimbabwe #winterABC26read on Becoming The Muse

Strangers become family... oh what a small world.Homeownership in Zimbabwe before independence. The old homeownership schemes for housing in the townships Read on Becoming The Muse

A walkdown memory lane growing up in the 90s...Sarura wako kadeye deya nendoro chena Nostalgia, Naivety, and the Things We Didn't Questionread on ⁠Becoming The Muse⁠