Masimba HwatiMasimba Hwati was born in 1982 in Harare, 2 years following Zimbabwe's Independence from the British crown. Talk about sonic envelopes, In that year Juluka released 'Scatterlings of Africa' a hit song inspiring phantasms of exotic gaze(s) against a bckdrop of a brutal Apartheid system in South Africa. This year also, Toto released the song, Africa. This is also the year Michael Jackson released the song Human nature and Bhundu boys released the single Uneshuwa Here? Later that year going into 1983, The new Zimbabwean Government unleashed 'Gukurahundi' The ethnic cleansing genocide in the southern part of the country. Masimba's work is preoccupied with sound, listening, micro-politics, resistance and negotiation. He's created projects in Harare, Detroit, Johannesburg, Capetown, Blackburn, UK, Vienna, Weimar, South Carolina, Leeds UK and Nova Scotia. Read More Read Less