DOMBOSHAVA showgrounds came alive on Saturday afternoon when musicians Sulumani Chimbetu, Jah Prayzah, Chiwoniso Maraire and Edith WeUtonga staged a brilliant show to launch their joint album titled Moyo Munyoro.
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The artistes presented a well-choreographed act and gave their first ever collaborative performance. The album, which strongly discourages violence, is a brainchild of Artists for Democracy in Zimbabwe Trust (ADZT).
The event was part of the organisation’s Zimbabwe Peace Caravan project which uses the arts to promote peace.
The project involves the participation of arts and sports celebrities in promoting peace and reconciliation. The album carries four danceable tracks which denounce violence and encourages Zimbabweans to observe peace at all times.
Speaking at the weekend event, the ADZT chairperson Demetria Zirenga said the peace album was the organisation’s attempt to help build peace in the country ahead of elections.
“We have always been promoting peace as an organisation and we saw it fit that we come together with the popular artistes to amplify the already existing voices of peace. We hope with this effort and many others by our politicians, civic society partners, political parties and the citizens of the country we can be able to build lasting peace,” Zirenga said.
The event at Domboshava featured several competitions to help the over 1 000 people who attended the event to grasp the idea behind the peace concert.
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Master of ceremonies and popular radio and television personality Kanyemba Bonzo kept on reminding the crowd of the importance of the event through improptu question and answer sessions.
Speaking at the same event, ADZT director Stanley Kwenda told the crowd that the event was about building peace in our communities.
“We are gathered here to help build peace in Zimbabwe. We hope you are going to take this album home and share the messages with your neighbours, relatives, friends and workmates,” Kwenda said.
One of the artistes, Edith WeUtonga, said she was excited to have been part of the project and that she felt satisfied by the response that it received from ordinary citizens.
“When we started this project we were not sure what we were going to come up with, but I am glad we have made it and feel that the effort was worth that time as it has been well received by the people of Domboshava,” WeUtonga said.
As a sign of their commitment to building peace, the crowds formed a huge sea wave while holding hands in a public symbolic gesture of unity.
The Zimbabwe Peace Caravan campaign is amplifying the calls by political leaders, civic leaders and ordinary citizens to have a peaceful election.
Under the same programme, ADZT has also commissioned peace ambassadors who are preaching peace messages during their live performances, among them are sungura musicians Zakaria Zakaria, Somandla Ndebele, Herbert Majeke, Romeo Gasa and Chazesesa Challengers.
