A “staple of the New Mexico jazz scene” (Pasatiempo) Zimbabwe Nkenya has dedicated his life to music. A self-taught musical scholar, this St. Louis native started as a youth with the cello, but now ...

Listeners who come to traditional African music from the American variety will find it a refreshingly organic experience. The sonorities reflect a variety of instruments both ancient and modern, ...

Trust Khosa — In Zimbabwe, jazz music is often associated with a mature audience that appreciates the art form and invests in its experience. Unlike genres such as rhumba, Zimdancehall or sungura, ...

THE Zimbabwe Jazz Community Trust (ZJCT) and Alliance Française in Zimbabwe thrilled the city of Bulawayo in an eventful Zimbabwe Jazz Festival 2025 over the weekend. Last Friday at Alliance Française ...

In 2009, when musician Zimbabwe Nkenya suffered a serious stroke, it stole his language, both written and spoken, and paralyzed his right side. But as he once told his wife, poet Deborah Mashibini: “I ...

Harare — Most women who trail-blazed the music path in Zimbabwe have been mentioned except for one - Virginia Sillah. Now retired in England, Virginia, who married Greenford Jangano, fronted for the ...

In an era where music charts are dominated by electronic beats and auto-tuned vocals, one young man is boldly swimming against the tide — armed not with software, but with a saxophone and an ...

AWARD-WINNING Switzerland-based Zimbabwean saxophonist and singer, Vee Mukarati is in the country to perform at this year’s edition of the Zimbabwe Jazz Festival hosted by the Alliance Francaise ...

Special Africa correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Farai Chideya discuss the impact of instability in Zimbabwe on South Africa, as well as a new sports-education center in the township of Soweto ...