Beyond the restaurant setting, Chikumbirike is steadily influencing the evolving sounds of Afro-fusion and jazz. His ongoing ...

Google is celebrating Zimbabwe's Culture Week with an interactive doodle of the Mbira - a musical instrument traditional to the Shona people. The game tells the story of a Zimbabwean girl who watches ...

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, ...

Preface -- Introduction -- Part A. Components of the Mbira System -- Collecting ideas in an improvisation-based tradition : A longitudinal approach -- The mbira repertory : Central concepts -- ...

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 ...

In the soft clinking of mbira keys lies a world of memory, prayer, and resistance. To many Zimbabweans, the mbira is not merely an instrument, but a bridge between the living and the ancestors, ...

Also known as the thumb piano, the mbira is an African musical instrument that has been around in one form or another for at least 3,000 years. Now, however, scientists have developed a new version ...

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Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. Today’s Google Doodle is an interactive game that lets you play the mbira, a popular ...

Trumpet and drums—a truly primal combination—are joined by the delicately trilling, archaic and arcane sounds of the Chinese lute or pipa on Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Wadada Leo Smith's musical ...

The creators of ride-sharing app Afri Ride will soon bring to market multi-purpose chat service, Mbira Chat, as an independent app. Named after the family of musical instruments traditional to the ...