Can Your Doc Really Change the World?

POV (US television’s longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films on PBS) recently hosted IDA’s Doc U on the Road to examine the question “Can Your Doc Really Change the World?” with a panel of documentary heavyweights and the conversation continued afterwards with a Q&A and reception.

The panel included Academy Award-winning director Roger Ross Williams (Music by Prudence), Rachel Libert (Semper Fi: Always Faithful, Boomtown), Diana Barrett, founder of the Fledgling Fund, and Cynthia López, Executive Vice President and Co-Executive Producer of POV. Read more…

Tags | HBO, Oscar, POV, Roger Ross Williams, Unicef, Zimbabwe

Spotlight on Prudence

Last month, Prudence and the film were featured on Spotlight Radio. Spotlight Radio is a great source for people who want to learn English. It’s is a daily 15 minute radio program that uses a special English method of broadcasting. They use fewer words, slower speed, and shorter sentences.

People can listen to Spotlight Radio online, on public radio stations, and in school classes.

Listen to the Spotlight broadcast on Music by Prudence right here.

Tags | disabled, iThemba, Liyana, Prudence Mabhena, Spotlight Radio, Zimbabwe

A Wish for Zimbabwe

More Prudence celebrations in Harare – complete with motorcade!

Zimbabwe’s showbiz, arts, and lifestyle magazine Zimbo Jam reports about Prudence’s trip to Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, where a whole convoy drove her and the other band members of Liyana to see Zimbabwe’s officials, with Vice President Nkomo as the keynote speaker, honoring the Oscar win.

Quoting Prudence: “This is not my Oscar alone, but it’s for Liyana, it’s for King George VI, it’s for Zimbabwe, it’s for Africa… Yes we can, this is what Obama said and now this is what Zimbabwe is saying. Yes we can.”

Read the inspiring article here.

Tags | Harare, Prudence Mabhena, Zimbabwe, Zimbojam

Al Jazeera report on Prudence’s homecoming (video)

A great TV news report by Al Jazeera English, showing Prudence’s arrival back in Zimbabwe from the United States, after the Oscar win. It turned out to be just the beginning of a lot of great things to happen to Prudence…

Tags | Al Jazeera, Prudence Mabhena, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Times: Hero’s Welcome for Oscar Award Winner

The Zimbabwe Times reports about the arrival of Prudence Mabhena, star of Music by Prudence, back in Zimbabwe:

BULAWAYO – Oscar winning disabled musician Prudence Mabhena brought Bulawayo to a standstill when she arrived from the United States on Monday afternoon.

Hundreds of residents, who included politicians from both the MDC and Zanu-PF and the Mayor Patrick Thaba-Moyo, thronged Bulawayo Airport to welcome Mabhena, who landed at 1pm aboard a South Africa Airways flight. Read more…

Tags | Liyana, Oscar, Prudence Mabhena, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Times

BBC Podcast: Ouch! It’s a Disability Thing!

Prudence and Marvelous, two of the film’s stars, where guests on Ouch!, the BBC podcast about the lives and experiences of people with a disability. They were on the phone from Zimbabwe, talking to the hosts in London, while director Roger Ross Williams joined in from the US. Yes, this was very international!

Listen to the interview right here:



Check out the Ouch! website. It has articles, blogs, a very busy message board and of course, the award-winning downloadable radio show – The Ouch Podcast.

Tags | BBC, disabled, interview, Marvelous, Ouch!, Prudence Mabhena, Roger Ross Williams, singing, Zimbabwe