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ZCCD 







ZIMBABWE CULTURAL CENTRE IN DETROIT’Smission is to educate, archive, & promote the arts & culture of Zimbabwe. We continuously strive to encourage strong ties between culture-producers & residents in Zimbabwe, Detroit, & abroad, acting as catalysts for critical artistic production as well as cultural exchange between communities.



 
ZIMBABWE CULTURAL
CENTRE DETROIT





COMRADES /


MONO MUKUNDU

RESIDENT /
ZCCD RESEARCH FELLOW
2018
Joyce Jenje Makwenda is an archivist, historian, ethnomusicologist and writer who was born in Zimbabwe in 1958. She lives and works in Harare where she founded and runs the Joyce Jenje Makwenda Collection Archive. It is one of the largest privately-owned archives of documented interviews, newspaper, vinyl records, photogaphy, musical instruments, amongst other objects and materials, in Zimbabwe. For the past 30 years her work has been focused on early urban culture, music, politics, education, religion, media, fashion, sexuality (taboo), cultural issues and women’s histories in Zimbabwe. Some of her notable publications are Zimbabwe Township Music (2005), Divorce Taken (2009), and Women Musicians of Zimbabwe (2013).

◄ Mono at the ZCCD archives, 2018.



▲ @mono_mukundu master class at the Center of World Performance Studies with Michael Gould.