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Danai Gurira is one of the most globally recognisable faces in the world.
That means she is easily the biggest Zimbabwean actor/actress in the world.
And she has written some amazing plays and on an episode of ABC’s Popcorn with Peter Travers two years ago she sang the popular hymn Makanaka Mwari which she has towards the end of her iconic The Convert play.
She said before she sang:
It’s kind of a hymn. It’s a song that I put the end of… I have known it, I don’t even know how long. But it’s a song that I put at the end of my play, The Convert, because the idea was this woman was birthing the African interpretation of Christianity. She severed herself from the Western interpretation. She was birthing it anew in the African sense of what it meant to be a Christian versus the Western sense. So this is a song I historically fictionalised her creating on the spot at the end of the play. So I figured that’s what I’d sing.
Watch Danai Gurira sing the song in her native Shona on ABC’s Popcorn With Peter Travers below:
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