Viomak - Releases

Releases

Happy 82nd Birthday President R.G Mugabe (Emotions of the Emotionless). Viomak released this album on 12 February 2006 to mark Mugabe's 82nd birthday.

Happy 83rd Birthday President R.G Mugabe (Bones of A 30-Year-Old), released in Zimbabwe on 21 February 2007 is a compilation of soulful and hard-hitting ballads that tell of a country in crisis and of leaders impervious to the idea of relinquishing power. This album is a sequel to her first album Happy 82nd Birthday President R.G Mugabe, which was relatively popular This protest music is banned from the airwaves of state-owned media. The eight-track album features songs such as Inzwa Mugabe (Listen Mugabe), Mugabe Usambozvinyengedza (Mugabe don't fool yourself), and Mangwanani Baba (Good morning daddy). The album delivers one straight message: Mugabe must go if the country is to be saved from further collapse.

Happy 84th Birthday President R.G Matibili (Great son Of Malawi), is Viomak's third album, released on 21 February 2008. The eight track album exposes Mugabe as a Malawian whose ancestral name is Matibili. The lyrics are as usual a chronicle of the political events in Zimbabwe and a cry for Matibili to leave power, whilst exposing the president's incompetence and human rights abuses.

Viomak still finds it an uphill task to distribute her protest music in Zimbabwe. On 10 March 2007, she performed at a rally to mark the suffering of Zimbabwean women who cannot afford sanitary wear.