The documentary Mbira Talks, about a Zimbabwean-Canadian musician’s relationship with an instrument once banned during colonization, took a long time to make. We know this because Moyo Rainos Mutamba ...

Be the first to leave a review! Join us Saturday evening at the Well-Being Hub in Warmister, for a vibrant evening of traditional Zimbabwean music and dance. We welcome our brother Tafara Chakanetsa, ...

HARARE — A sense of cultural pride filled the club as Virimai Nhedega enchanted his fans with the rhythmic melodies of the Mbira, a traditional Zimbabwean musical instrument celebrated for its unique ...

SAMPLE Chigumbu is arguably one of the most refined makers of traditional music instruments like marimba and mbira and has also maintained their traditional sounds and melodies through song and the ...

Harare, Zimbabwe – Dzivarasekwa, a nondescript township on the southwestern rims of Zimbabwe’s capital, copies the 1907 template of the first ghetto, Harari (now Mbare): grim, monotonous, matchbox ...

OF all my records by Zimbabwean musicians, the one I treasure the most is Thomas Mapfumo’s crackly 7-inch single with “Kuyaura” on side A and “Zvanyadza” on the flip side. Released in 1979, towards ...

CHITUNGWIZA-BASED prolific mbira player Munyaradzi Fombe believes mbira music should be widely taught in Zimbabwe to help cement the country’s cultural identity. Fombe is also a renowned stone carver ...

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