YOUTH CULTURE: A MELTING POT IN ZIMBABWE

The study describes and analyzes the psychosocial dynamics of youth culture from the 1960s to the present. Emphasis was given to examine how different epochs affect the youth culture. With some exceptions here and there, it is observed that the youth of the earlier years had more in common with the general culture of their communities than the contemporary youth. Also there is a marked difference between the urban contemporary youth culture and the rural youth culture. Tsika (manners) and hunhu (an ethic or humanist philosophy focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other) were given prominence in Zimbabwe’s general youth culture during the 1960s. The same prominence is also being given to the values in contemporary youth culture. On the other hand book education, together with music, attire, entertainment, the war of liberation, multimedia, religion, labor migration, and, more recently, the internet and globalization have created a youth culture differentiated from the