New ZaaNgoma Show: Hope for Zim Hip Hop

Some time in the past week a friend of ours brought to our attention to a YouTube video and said nothing except that we would love it. so we followed the link and it took us to an episode of the new show "ZaaNgoma", a show that from what we saw has been put in place to uplift our local hip hop. A good move we would say, hey, the blogs can only go so far and with every other young Zim industry having Vlogs why should we have been the last to follow suit? 

The initiative will bring lots of opportunities for young Zimbabweans to get involved and show us their Talents. the show obviously has a bright future ahead ; with Begotten Sun in their pilot episode there is no bigger endorsement for a movement that is meant to help Zim hip hop among other things.The Show with its good quality and Talented presenters who are directly involved in the Hip hop industry will soon grow and become something everyone looks forward to and all artists want to be on. Its very helpful because as far as artists go it is a good way to hear the views of bigger artists in terms of the music reviews and the focus on song concepts; it may even be able to drive content in a certain direction.

So we thought we would give our thoughts on the first episode, cause that's really what we do here... inform and critique so that things get better. Its not only enough to have a show, we want it to be high quality as well.

We managed to get a brief description about the show via a friend who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy...you get it right?

Zaangoma is a Zimbabwean urban culture television show with an African flavor.
The core idea is behind the show is to provide viewers with up to date gist of what is trending around the African entertainment scene. As well as cover a culture which is proving to be increasingly popular amongst the African youth, Hip Hop.
Zaangoma is a vibrant show, full of life. To comprehend this energy, they have enlisted young talents Tadiwa, McPotar and Sharky as presenters

Behind the scenes we have a team of 8 people led by the show's director and producer Quinton Mutsinze of Quence. Motion, Micheal Mupotaringa, Tadiwa Chimbodza, Raymond Sibanda, Young Nags, Russell and Marshall Muchenje as well as Leroy Dzenga.

Zaangoma is brought to you as a result of a collaborative effort by the following new media entities Quence Motion, Maison De Rouge, Olova Music, www.mcpotar.com and The Hitmen Studios.

One thing is for sure that partnership there looks like a productive one that will bring us the best music from around the country. A highly Talented Video director and producer in Quence.Motion, Michael Mupotaringa the winner of ZHHA best Online Media 2014, music producer Raymond Sibanda and writer Leroy Dzenga among others. With that line up, it is almost a guarantee that the Show will be a success and will provide us with the entertainment that Zbc deprives us and DSTv ignores...Zimbabwean entertainment.

Our Fears 

1. Consistency - as viewers we obviously want to be guaranteed that we will have this show regularly. this is especially because there are things happening in entertainment every week and we dont want a show with stale or irrelevant news. the guys from ZaaNgoma have evaded this by not promising when another episode will come out. we just hope its not in half a year.
2. Nepotism - This is something that may happen if they keep playing around and getting their content from the sources that are the partners. It is the potential risk (to us viewers) that they will keep piling music from their partners on us...and that wont be good. we the viewers will demand *Juju voice right here* a fresh show with the best music only, not artists that are easy for them to reach. That way their show will grow.

Where They are Going Wrong So Far

1. Congestion - Ok, as with everything else this purely our view, some may not mind. We feel the Show, is in the episode itself is congested visually. There is too much happening on the screen at the same time...the whole time. Honestly, Quence.Motion are obviously a very talented team that can do great things graphically, but too often we felt like they were trying to show us all they can do - in a single episode. Felt like we were watching a portfolio for a very good video graphics dude. It made it hard to focus on the content of the show...then when we were watching for the third time to get the actual content we were stuck between "do we read all the stuff on the screen (and it kept coming) or do we listen to Bsun, McPotar and Sharky. 
2. It was too short - We have been asking around and gratefully we are not the only ones who felt this way. the episode is 7 minutes (a Justin Timberlake video for one song) and there isn't enough time, we feel, to achieve their goal effectively. everything zoomed past so fast and even after we had watched it a couple of times we had a hard time remembering anything, the information felt like it was super compressed, nothing in depth. Felt like we watched the trailer to the episode

As always, you know these are nothing but the ramblings of madmen,we just enjoy speaking our view. its not law, but please go have a peek at the episode and share with us. Hip Hop and Zim urban culture as a whole needed something like this. This is great!

why do you watch it from the link below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvgiW-QGMD4

don't forget to always

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