Shoko Festival

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Shoko Festival

Zimbabwean hip hop

Zimbabwean hiphop has traditionally been a scene with very talented artists with little to show for the time and dedication they put in. It has birthed such names as Metaphysics, Kingpinn, Munetsi and other artists who have left an indelible mark. It incorporates all the different varieties of hiphop from the hardcore underground, politically conscious, social commentary rap music to the more krunk and ‘commercial’ type. The one thing about the hiphop scene in Zimbabwe is that its clear that no matter the type of rap you do, if you're in it, then you're in it for the love.

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Beware of taking the historical context out of hip hop

What we've got to be very careful as hip hop artists is that we don’t allow rap to held as a scapegoat by society. What I mean by that is, yeah there is some very negative hip hop music, yes, there is some very nostolganistic hip hop music, yes, there is some very materialistic hip hop music but all of that reflects the violence and materialism in our culture from start, it’s not specific to rap.

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Hip hop and its historical context

Comrade Fatso introduces Shoko Festival

The art form that has grown in Zimbabwe while many others have suffered has been poetry and spoken word which actually, the spoken word movement did not really exist here until the early 2000s. And our idea is it not just being about poetry and not just about hip hop but about all facets of urban culture that are progressive. So that’s why you will see we've got, we will have the social media reporting going on, tweeting, blogging about the festival in real time.

Shoko press Conference

Comrade Fatso, Akala, Hired Gun and Outspoken, the panelists a at the Shoko Festival Press Conference

Akala and Hired Gun at the Shoko Festival Press Conference

Comrade Fatso and Outspoken of Magamba at the Shoko Festival Press Conference

Akala responds at the Shoko Festival Press Conference

Outspoken gives his insights at the Shoko Festival Press Conference

Comrade Fatso introduces the Shoko Festival at the Press Conference

Hired Gun from the US speaks at the Shoko Festival Press Conference

The press conference was held at the Alliance Francaise and was hosted by Outspoken of Magamba Network. Very few people were in attanedance but they missed out on some very inciteful talks by the panelists. On the panel were two of the headliners for the Shoko Festival which included Akala from UK who gave a discourse about the history of hip hop and Hired Gun from the USA who spoke on violence in music. Comrade Fatso of Magamba Network gave an introduction to Shoko Festival, the desired outcomes of the festival and also answered the question of women in hip hop.

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Shoko

Comrade Fatso

challenges of organising a festival

Shoko Festival Slam Poetry Express

Xapa, Zimbabwe at Shoko Poetry Slam Express

Synik, Zimbabwe at Shoko Poetry Slam Express

Mandisa Mabuthoe, Botswana at Shoko Poetry Slam Express

Mischael-Sarim, Germany at Shoko Poetry Slam Express

Blaq Pearl, Zimbabwe at Shoko Poetry Slam Express

Timothy Mwaura, Kenya at Shoko Poetry Slam Express

Flochyld, Zimbabwe at Shoko Poetry Slam Express

Aerosol, Zimbabwe at Shoko Poetry Slam Express

Lungile Lethola South Africa at Shoko Poetry Slam Express

Madzitateguru, Zimbabwe at Shoko Poetry Slam Express

KB, South Africa at Shoko Poetry Slam Express

Mwana Africa, Zimbabwe at Shoko Poetry Slam Express

Nyamalikiti, Malawi at Shoko Poetry Slam Express

DJ Marv Studd on the decks at Shoko Poetry Slam Express

The Slam Poetry Express held at the Mannenberg was a live poetry battle featuring leading poets from all over the world. Each poet had 3 minutes do deliver their poem. The audience, were the judges! The poets picked a number from the hat which would determine when they would deliver their poem. Five random judges were picked by the host non other than Godobori. They would each give the poet a mark out of 10. Then Godobori would take away the highest and the lowest then take the average of the last three marks and that was the score.

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