Today's Google Doodle is celebrating Zimbabwe's national instrument, the mbira, for Zimbabwe's Culture Week. The Google Doodle follows a Zimbabwean girl's experience of discovering and learning to ...

This story was first published in April 2021. Chaka Zinyemba never considered himself the counter-culture type, but his friends and family did. "When I think back, I was kind of frustrated that a lot ...

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 ...

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, ...

PREPARATIONS are at an advanced stage for Bira Rembira to be held on September 27 at the Heritage Village in Harare. The event is billed to be the peak of the Mbira Month commemorations, which are ...

SOME stakeholders in the creative sector yesterday described the listing of one of the country’s musical instruments, mbira (or thumb piano) on the prestigious United Nations Educational, Scientific ...

PHOTOJOURNALIST Bornwell Choga says the authentic history of mbira has not been fully established due to suppression arising from religious misconception despite the mbira instrument beind widely ...