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2007
NAMA nominees announced
The Herald (Zimbabwe)
January 19, 2007
http://allafrica.com/stories/200701190084.html
THE 2007 National
Arts Merit Awards nominees were announced in Harare on Wednesday.
This year's
edition of the awards, to be held on February 4 at the 7 Arts Theatre,
has 25 categories with the media awards being the latest addition.
In the outstanding
musician category, urban groover Rufaro Cindy Munyavi has sprung
a surprise by taking on Oliver Mtukudzi, Kireni Zulu and Amai Charamba.
Her song, Spare
wheel, is also vying for the outstanding album award together with
Joseph Garakara's Idya Banana, Alexio Kawara's Tinodanana and Ellen
Kupusa Smith's Mbudzi.
Amai Charamba
and Kawara have also been nominated for the outstanding album award
for The Gospel and Pfimbi Yangu respectively.
The 2006 Zima
award winners -- Chiedza Chavatendi -- failed to make it into the
outstanding choral group category where Chitungwiza Harmony Singers,
MUMC (Harare West) and Glen View SDA Group are competing.
The Zimbabwe
Women Writers who are the holders of the 2006 Nama outstanding fiction
book have also been nominated for the same award with their Ndebele
Book titled Vala Singafohleli Lesisilo.
Shimmer Chinodya
is also a nominee in the same category with his new book Strife.
John Kapuya,
who had five entries in the outstanding children's book, was nominated
for two books -- Buffy the Buffalo and Pepukai Itsvuuramuromo --
in the category.
Journalists,
Grace Mutandwa and Phillip Chidavaenzi are tussling in the outstanding
first creative published work with their books Whose Daughter My
Child and Haunted Trail.
Zvido Zvevanhu,
the perennial nominees in the Nama outstanding dance group are also
in the run for the award but they have to fight off Dhindo Cultural
Dance Group in order to get it.
In a country
where there are more than 10 female dance groups, this year's Nama
outstanding female dancer has no nominees.
Elizabeth Takawira,
Phillis Mashika and Sandra Ndebele did not meet the Nama criteria.
The colourful
Mawungira Enharira dancer, Tonderai Phiri, is this year seeking
to be recognised for his dancing skills.
Phiri together
with Enoch Majeza and Charles Mukege are the nominees in the outstanding
male dancer category.
Another surprise
is in the outstanding screen production (television drama) when
there are various dramas being shown at the moment.
In justifying
the absence of nominees in the drama category, Stephen Chigorimbo,
who is the chairman of the adjudication panel, said there were seven
submissions in the category but "unfortunately none of the
submissions met the criteria and quality expectations of Nama".
The seven were
Ndakaitei, Nyarai, Munombodei, The Small House Saga, Tiriparwendo,
Why Me and Izenzo.
"Let me
remind that at Nama it is possible to have a hundred submissions
and have no nominees if the quality of submissions is sub-standard.
We pride ourselves in excellence and perfection," he said.
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