16 Years of Turning Up Zimbabwe's Urban Culture
An Experience You Will Never Forget.
Zimbabwe’s longest-running urban culture festival isn’t just an event it’s a movement. For 16 years, Shoko Festival has been the beating heart of Zimbabwean Hip Hop, Stand-Up Comedy, and Spoken Word, launching over 1,500 artists and drawing more than 20,000 young, electric fans every single year.
This is where legends are made and legends show up.
Our stages have hosted global icons and homegrown heroes alike: South Africa’s Moonchild Sanelly and Cassper Nyovest, Jamaica’s reggae royalty Tony Rebel, chart-topping AKA, comedy powerhouse Tumi Morake, UK’s award-winning OneDa, Zimbabwe’s own Voltz JT, and America’s Got Talent standout Learnmore Jonasi and that’s just a taste.
But Shoko isn't only about the stage.
Our Hub Unconference is where Africa’s boldest minds come to challenge, inspire, and provoke change from Zakele Mbele, Africa’s first openly gay MP, to Black Lives Matter co-founder Ashley Yates, celebrated satirist Gado, and journalists from CNN and Al Jazeera. These are the conversations shaping our continent’s future.
Meanwhile Green Cities Expo is a thriving creative space for discussion, exhibitions and artivism for climate justice and the imagining of a just, green, low carbon future for Africa.
