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# Magamba Network

We are Africa's trailblazing creative & digital media  organisation.

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- [Rural Digital Kiosk](https://magambanetwork.com/rural-kiosk/) - Bridging the Digital Divide: At Magamba Civic Tech Lab, we believe technology should serve everyone — not just those in cities. That’s why we’re pioneering the Rural Digital Kiosk, a community-driven solution designed to bring information, education, and opportunity to underserved rural communities across Zimbabwe. Why the Rural Digital Kiosk? Across Zimbabwe and much of
- [A Tale Of Two Patrices - Why African Football Needs To Cut Ties With Polluting Sponsors](https://magambanetwork.com/a-tale-of-two-patrices/) - A Tale Of Two Patrices – Why African Football Needs To Cut Ties With Polluting Sponsors By Trust Kudzayi Chikodzo, Coordinator of Kick Polluters Out and the #KickTotalOutOfAFCON campaign This year’s Africa Cup Of Nations (AFCON) has delivered plenty of magical moments, but perhaps the most striking was the iconic image of the
- [African Civil Society Condemns Internet Shutdown During Uganda Election  PRESS STATEMENT](https://magambanetwork.com/african-civil-society-condemns-internet-shutdown-during-uganda-election-press-statement/) - African Civil Society Condemns Internet Shutdown During Uganda Election PRESS STATEMENT For Immediate Release – 16th January 2026Leading African civil society organisations, social movements & content creators stand in unequivocal solidarity with the people of Uganda following the January 15th Presidential Election, which took place under a nationwide internet shutdown imposed by authorities days before voting
- [Zimbabwe Youths & Artists Rise Up in Total Smackdown Teach-In:](https://magambanetwork.com/zimbabwe-youths-artists-rise-up-in-total-smackdown-teach-in/) - Creative Resistance Against Fossil Colonialism By Trust Chikodzo HARARE, ZIMBABWE - On 20 August, at Moto Republik, one of Zimbabwe’s leading safe spaces for youth creativity, 28 young people, including artists, students, and activists, gathered for the Kick Polluters Out Campaign: Total Smackdown Teach-In. A teach-in is an innovative form of protest and political education
- [King Kandoro Headlines Shoko Festival Comedy Night](https://magambanetwork.com/king-kandoro-headlines-shoko-festival-comedy-night/) - By Staff Reporter:ZIMBABWE'S comedy royalty Mukudzei “King Kandoro” Majoni will headline the highly anticipated Shoko Comedy Night at this year’s landmark 15th edition of Shoko Festival, set for Thursday, September 25 at Harare Gardens.Advance tickets are already on sale at $15 online through www.flippintickets.co.zw and at Moto Republik box office on 3 Allan Wilson Avenue,
- [Climate and Culture in Crisis](https://magambanetwork.com/climate-and-culture-in-crisis/) - By Shaun Karongosora I’m sitting on the edge of a cracked wooden bench, camera in hand, the sun rising slow and golden over the bushlands of Tsholotsho. It’s my first field trip, first time this far from the city, first time working on something that feels bigger than me. We’ve come here to document the
- [Call For Sessions: Hub Unconference 2025](https://magambanetwork.com/decolonize-the-internet/) - Call for Sessions, Speakers, Partners, and Sponsors Join us in shaping the future of digital sovereignty in Africa! The Shoko Festival Hub Unconference 2025 is excited to announce its theme: "Decolonize the Internet." As Africa continues to forge its digital identity, we recognize the critical importance of challenging colonial legacies embedded in internet infrastructure, biased
- [Youth Rising: How Malawi and Tanzania’s Media Hubs Are Rewriting the Narrative Ahead of Elections](https://magambanetwork.com/youth-rising-how-malawi-and-tanzanias-media-hubs-are-rewriting-the-narrative-ahead-of-elections/) - In the heart of Southern and East Africa, a new wave of storytelling is taking root. From satirical puppet shows to podcasts amplifying women’s voices, the region’s young creatives are finding bold, fearless ways to speak truth to power—just in time for pivotal national elections. This movement recently took shape through the Digital Democracy Akademy
- [Reflections from the 2025 Africa Social Movements Baraza](https://magambanetwork.com/from-despair-to-action/) - From Accra’s 2025 Africa Social Movements Baraza came a surge of hope and strategy: activists from all 54 African nations rallied under “The Power of Movements,” sharpening tactics to confront Big Oil and the climate emergency. Highlights included the Kick Total Out of Africa campaign’s creative resistance, a call for deep, constituency-based organising, and a
- [Launch of the Digital Democracy Hackathon: Empowering Sub-Saharan Voices](https://magambanetwork.com/launch-of-the-digital-democracy-hackathon-empowering-voices-for-democratic-participation-across-africa-sub-saharan-africa/) - The Digital Democracy Initiative (DDI) Hackathon is set to take place virtually on 9 and 10 May 2025, bringing together innovators, developers, activists, and community leaders to create technology-driven solutions aimed at enhancing democratic participation across Africa. Applications are open until the 30th of April, this groundbreaking hackathon focuses on leveraging technology to empower citizens,
- [Green Media Accelerator Event Breaks New Ground for African Media Startups](https://magambanetwork.com/green-media-accelerator-event-breaks-new-ground-for-african-media-startups/) - Green Media Accelerator Event Breaks New Ground for African Media Startups [Nairobi, Kenya: 29 February 2025] — Five innovative media startups from Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe have received cash grants to launch their climate justice media projects through the first-ever Green Media Accelerator (GMA) bootcamp. Organized, with the support of SIDA, by three partners
- [10 Artists Selected for the 2025 Free2Express Augmented Reality Project](https://magambanetwork.com/10-artists-selected-for-the-2025-free2express-augmented-reality-project/) - The Free2Expres project, implemented by Magamba Network and WELEAD Trust, empowers young Zimbabweans to safely express themselves and demand their rights amidst increasing restrictions on civic freedoms. With a core goal to foster a future where young Zimbabweans are empowered to freely and safely express themselves and demand their rights, the Free2Expres Augmented Reality Project
- [Breakthrough Innovations in Human Rights: CHARM Africa Engage 2024 Hackathon’s Inspiring Highlights from Banjul](https://magambanetwork.com/magamba-ushers-innovation-into-human-rights-charm-africa-engage-2024-hackathon/) - As we shine the spotlight on the incredible achievements from the recently concluded, Consortium For Human Rights In Sub Saharan Africa (CHARM) Africa Engage 2024 Hackathon held in Banjul, Gambia, led by Magamba Network. The pioneering two-day event, brought together an inspired collective of developers, activists, and innovators dedicated to harnessing technology for the betterment
- [AFRICA-WIDE Virtual HACKATHON 2024](https://magambanetwork.com/africa-wide-virtual-hackathon-2024/) - Join us for the Africa Engage 2024 Virtual Hackathon—an exciting opportunity for developers, activists, and innovators across the continent to come together and build a transformative digital solution! This groundbreaking hackathon aims to empower Africans to access, engage with, and utilize essential human rights tools and mechanisms. Over two days, participants will collaborate virtually to
- [Call for Applications: The Green Media Accelerator Bootcamp](https://magambanetwork.com/call-for-applications-the-green-media-accelerator-bootcamp/) - Call for Applications: The Green Media Accelerator Bootcamp The Green Media Accelerator is an innovative bootcamp designed to support African media startups in creating cutting-edge climate justice content. This intensive multi-day program will bring together media startups from across Africa to sharpen their skills in environmental reporting, climate justice, investigative journalism, and content creation. Participants
- [Hub UnConference 2024: AI and Civic Engagement Focus](https://magambanetwork.com/hub-unconference-2024-zimbabwes-top-digital-media-event-returns-with-ai-and-civic-engagement-focus/) - Zimbabwe’s premier annual gathering on digital media, civic tech, and the creative economy, Hub UnConference, is returning this year with a two-day event scheduled for September 24 and 25 at Moto Republik in Harare. Read More
- [Celebrity comedians call for TotalEnergies to be kicked out of AFCON](https://magambanetwork.com/celebrity-comedians-call-for-totalenergies-to-be-kicked-out-of-afcon/) - Johannesburg, South Africa – A punchy parody video featuring celebrity comedians was released today by Greenpeace Africa and its partner Kick Polluters Out, a movement of African creatives and activists fighting against sportswashing by Big Polluters Read more
- [Shoko Festival announces call for artistes for 2024 edition](https://magambanetwork.com/shoko-festival-announces-call-for-artistes-for-2024-edition/) - Shoko Festival, one of the country's most dynamic creative sector festivals, is inviting creative individuals who wish to participate in the 2024 edition to apply for consideration. Read more
- [TotalEnergies Has no Place in African Football](https://magambanetwork.com/totalenergies-has-no-place-in-african-football/) - The African Cup of Nations (AFCON) — Africa’s landmark football tournament — is heading into the quarter finals in Cote D’Ivoire. As promised, the tournament has celebrated the diversity of African football and cultures. The atmospheres have been electric, and fans have travelled from every corner of the continent to celebrate its most popular sport.
- [Climate Activists Want AFCON Title Sponsor Kicked Out Over Pollution](https://magambanetwork.com/climate-activists-want-afcon-title-sponsor-kicked-out-over-pollution/) - Various civil society organizations on the continent have teamed up to push for TotalEnergies withdrawal from the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) sponsorship. The continent-wide campaign led by Africa Climate Change activists is targeting the tournament’s main sponsor, TotalEnergies.. Read more
- [Africa Cup Of Nations Begins Under The Shroud Of Oil And Gas](https://magambanetwork.com/africa-cup-of-nations-begins-under-the-shroud-of-oil-and-gas/) - In a few hours, the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) begins in the Ivory Coast. The biennial tournament is the continent’s largest celebration of men’s international soccer. However, the festive occasion is being undermined by concern about the tournament’s main sponsor; TotalEnergies. Read more
- [Amid Reported Coup, Zimbabwe’s National Police Continue to Crack Down on Free Speech](https://magambanetwork.com/amid-reported-coup-zimbabwes-national-police-continue-to-crack-down-on-free-speech/) - Even as Zimbabwe’s army seized power in the nation’s capital of Harare earlier this week, placing President Robert Mugabe under house arrest, the country’s national police force continued to go after dissidents who criticize the dictator, who has been in power for 37 years. Comedian and rapper Samm Monro, co-creator of the progressive Magamba Network, announced via Twitter
- [For Tweet Mocking Mugabe, New Jersey Woman Could Face 20 Years in Prison](https://magambanetwork.com/for-tweet-mocking-mugabe-new-jersey-woman-could-face-20-years-in-prison/) - HARARE, Zimbabwe — A young American woman living in Zimbabwe will be tried on charges of attempting to overthrow the government of Zimbabwe with a tweet mocking President Robert Mugabe, the world’s oldest head of state. The arrest of the woman, Martha O’Donovan, 25, has raised fears that the Zimbabwean government is stepping up efforts
- [WhatsApp has come in to fill the void](https://magambanetwork.com/whatsapp-has-come-in-to-fill-the-void/) - WhatsApp has come in to fill the void”: In Zimbabwe, the future of news is messaging. In Zimbabwe, multiple internet blackouts enforced by the government amid protests the week of January 19 brought the country’s social media sites and cities to a halt. Chatter in WhatsApp groups became eerily still in an online social landscape where almost half
- [Will Zimbabwe KeepItOn during the upcoming election?](https://magambanetwork.com/will-zimbabwe-keepiton-during-the-upcoming-election/) - Guest post by Koliwe Majama, a Zimbabwean media, information, communications, and technologies consultant with over 15 years experience working in civil society lobby and advocacy. The internet has exploded and may, in the few hours remaining before the poll on Monday, decide who takes the jackpot. Zimbabwe is going into a make-or-break election to choose its
- [Who owns civic space?](https://magambanetwork.com/who-owns-civic-space/) - Comrade Fatso and Outspoken met each other at a poetry slam in Harare, Zimbabwe. The two hip hop and spoken word artists started working together organizing live poetry events while running a youth network in between gigs at the same time. They soon realized more and more young people wanted to get involved. Their alliance, Magamba
- [The satirists and comics who stood up to Mugabe.](https://magambanetwork.com/the-satirists-and-comics-who-stood-up-to-mugabe/)
- [Magamba TV produces political satire for a social media-connected generation.](https://magambanetwork.com/magamba-tv-produces-political-satire-for-a-social-media-connected-generation/) - “On the one hand, we know that quite a few government ministers actually watch our stuff….So these dudes, they do watch it, to get a sense of what young people are thinking. Read More
- [Laughing at power in Zimbabwe.](https://magambanetwork.com/laughing-at-power-in-zimbabwe/) - Comrade Fatso, the co-founder of the Magamba Network, reflects on how satire, hip hop and youth activism are paving the way for democracy in Zimbabwe. Read More
- [Zambezi News Comedians](https://magambanetwork.com/zambezi-news-comedians/) - Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation is notorious for several reasons. First, as a mouthpiece for the Zanu-PF party, whose 91-year-old president Robert Mugabe recently fell over at a press conference, causing a worldwide avalanche of memes and a more localised effort to suppress the original evidence. Second, for its appalling technical glitches. And, third, for its ingenious spoof by
- [Satire is booming after Robert Mugabe’s fall](https://magambanetwork.com/satire-is-booming-after-robert-mugabes-fall/) - Now Zimbabwe’s comedians want to ensure that the gags keep rolling” Read More

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- [Home](https://magambanetwork.com/) - We’re all about using arts, digital media, civic tech & activism to reach young people and get them involved in the big issues of our time
- [Magamba Africa](https://magambanetwork.com/magamba-africa/) - Magamba Africa operates in 10 different African countries and has three streams of work focusing on Participatory Democracy Climate Justice Creative Free Expression Participatory Democracy Open Parly Africa We had a crazy idea in 2015: How do we make Parliament sexy for young people? At a time of political disillusionment amongst many young people in
- [NEWS & EVENTS](https://magambanetwork.com/news-events/) - Digital X is a cutting-edge programme using digital media, arts & civic tech to defend civic space, promote free expression & inspire young people to participate in progressive political & climate justice causes. Arts 4 Change is a youth-led, youth-focused programme that uses music, film and youth culture to trigger conversations around accountability. Latest News
- [About Us](https://magambanetwork.com/about-us/) - About Us Magamba Network is Africa’s trailblazing creative and digital media organisation .We’re all about using arts, digital media, civic tech & activism to inspire young people to participate in building a more just and equitable continent. We aim to empower young Africans to demand radically participatory democracy and a just, green economy.Magamba has been
- [FREE2EXPRESS HACKATHON 2025](https://magambanetwork.com/free2express-hackathon/) - Join 25 changemakers for a one-day civic tech challenge to defend press freedom and fight disinformation in Zimbabwe. The Free2Express Hackathon offers two focus areas you can choose from. Each track tackles a key challenge facing freedom of expression in Zimbabwe today. The Free2Express Hackathon 2025 is a one-day civic innovation event that unites 25
- [Digital X](https://magambanetwork.com/digital-x/) - Digital X is a cutting-edge programme using digital media, urban culture & civic tech to defend civic space, promote free expression & inspire young people to participate in progressive political & climate justice causes in Zimbabwe. The programme is made up of 5 projects: Magamba TV, a production house for political satire; Open Parly, an
- [Contact Us](https://magambanetwork.com/contact-us/) - Contact Us Get in Touch with Us 3 Allan Wilson Avenue,Greater Avenues, HarareZimbabwe magamba@magambanetwork.comPhone: +263 8644 076 265
- [Studio Moto](https://magambanetwork.com/studio-moto/) - Studio Moto is Zimbabwe’s new hub for alternative media and critical civic content. The studio was launched to support African content creators, creatives, and civic organizations to produce and share social justice content. Studio Moto aims to empower African civic organizations with storytelling skills and to assist them in creating compelling content that amplifies their
- [Arts4Change](https://magambanetwork.com/arts4change/) - Arts4Change meets young people where they are through creative forms of engagement . Established in 2020, the youth-led, youth-focused programme uses music, film, satire and comedy to trigger dialogue and inspire youth-led participation in grassroots movements and advocacy around critical governance issues.Every year, the programme mentors aspiring musicians and filmmakers who produce films and songs

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