Hope Masike

Hope Masike - known for her captivating singing and mbira playing - emerged on the local Zimbabwean music scene last decade. With a contemporary sound highly inspired by the Zimbabwean traditional music of Mbira, she creates music that is a tasty hybrid of many music styles tied together by her signature sublime Mbira playing, poetic song-writing and highly-charged performances.

In February 2020 Hope Masike self-published her first book, an anthology of poems about the woman's life, from period pains, fibroids and spinsterhood to sex, rape and alcoholism. It has received rave reviews locally and abroad. Ask Me Again was also used as a base for a theatrical monodrama currently in production under Canadian theatre company, 2b Theatre. Hope Masike recently finished working on her second anthology with poetry in her mothertongue, Shona and is preparing to publish this book soon.

Featured in: Word Travels Round the World and Australian Poetry Slam - National Final