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Kadoma (Zimbabwe) Music Festival: When a City Becomes a Nation’s Stage
This Saturday, Kadoma will do more than host a music festival — it will become the epicenter of Zimbabwe’s cultural pulse.
The Odyssey, which has lately become quite the place when it comes to daily entertainment, will erupt once again into a sonic volcano as thousands converge for what is, in truth, the Zimbabwe Music Festival.
Kadoma is merely the venue. The spirit? National. The energy? Continental
This year’s lineup reads like a reggae-dancehall prophecy fulfilled. Busy Signal and Chris Martin — two Jamaican heavyweights rarely seen on the same stage — will ignite the night with lyrical fire and island swagger.
Their presence alone has triggered a regional migration: fans from South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and beyond are booking flights, packing cars, and plotting road trips to witness this rare musical alignment.
But this is no imported spectacle. Zimbabwe’s own titans — Winky D, Alick Macheso, Freeman HKD, Feli Nandi, Julian King, and the rising Kurai Makore — will hold the line with genre-defying brilliance. It’s a lineup that doesn’t just entertain — it affirms Zimbabwe’s place in the global music conversation.
And if you’re wondering how Kadoma plans to hold this tidal wave of fans, festival organiser Tich Mharadze has a simple answer: “This is an elastic venue. There is enough room for everyone coming to Odyssey. We are extending the festival arena all the way into the golf course. So if there is anyone thinking that we can be oversubscribed, they need not to worry.”
The Kadoma Music Festival is no longer a local gig. It’s a cultural summit. A sonic declaration. A reminder that when the music is right, borders blur, and a city becomes a continent’s dancefloor.
