Zimbabwe: Baba Harare Misfired

Listening to Afro-fusion musician Braveman "Baba Harare" Chizvino's highly-anticipated album Ramba Wakadzvanya, which was released last week, is a mind-numbing experience and coming from a musician enjoying the sort of attention he has been of late, he needs to rethink a few things.

There is no doubt that he has been faced with a mammoth task to match or surpass his second album Minamato YaRasta, which contains mega-hit The Reason Why (Hat Dzemurara), but when one listens to the latest 10-track offering they are lost in translation as to where exactly he is headed.

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