By Fidelis Manyange

HE is a Bishop, a prominent businessman and most importantly a Sungura musician and pan-Africanist.
This is Ollah Juru, the man whose music is purely pan–African and openly spelt out in his recent album entitled Diaspora.
Based in South Africa, Bishop Juru was compelled to compose the album to let people know the negative things which fellow Africans do to their kith and kin merely because of colonial borders.
The Xenophobia once experienced in South Africa inspired him to come up with the album Diaspora which is his seventh.
His previous albums include Rabhauma, Ivai Vatendi, Tichabuda neNyasha, Gomo reMweya Mutsvene and Chivandire.
Bishop Juru’s recent project shows that he did his homework in order to improve his music so that it catches up with time.
He roped in the talented, but controversial Saul Musaka aka Soul Jah Love on two tracks ‘Kukura Kwedu’ and ‘Nevanje’.
Released in September, the album, is receiving fair airplay on the local air waves, but Bishop Juru bemoans lack of marketing and poor promotion in the country.
“Tinoimba zvinemusoro zvinopa vanhu vedu hunhu hwakanaka asi chinondishamisa ndechekuti avo vanoimba zvisina basa nezvinonyadzisa ndivo varikuwana airplay yakawanda uye mapromoters ndovanhu vavanoda,” said Bishop Juru.
Bishop Juru said he is bitter because the studio responsible for marketing his album countrywide was failing to do so.
Besides making collaboration with Soul Jah Love, he also featured Alick Macheso who did vocals and played the bass guitar on his last year’s album Chiwandire.
Hailing from Chivhu, Bishop Juru is actually the Bishop of The Proverbs of Jesus International Ministry which has branches locally, in Botswana and South Africa.
He was inspired to sing by his friend, the late Paul Matavire whose shows he never missed.
“The message I spread in my music is, “Africa is for Africans, hence we must love one another as we are all children of God.”