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, ...

MBIRA artists feel they do not have to go to a formal college for them to teach the instrument as a subject in schools or colleges. The instrument is a traditional heritage some of whose manufacturers ...

A virtuoso of the mbira, a plucked instrument, he shared his knowledge with the wider world to preserve wisdom handed down orally. He died of Covid-19. By Jon Pareles This obituary is part of a series ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mbira, or “thumb piano,” a traditional African instrument, is declining in popularity in big cities, a musician and seller of traditional musical instruments from Cape Town, South Africa told ...

WILLIAMSTOWN -- When high-ranking Zimbabwean mbira player Forward Kwenda absorbs himself in playing his instrument, the results can be blindingly electric. "Nothing goes through my mind," Kwenda said.

Inside a pub in Harare, a harmonic rhythm of traditional musical instruments echoed off the walls. Musical group Dziva Rembira performs at a concert in Harare, Zimbabwe, Nov. 18, 2021. (Xinhua/Tafara ...

As political repression and economic devastation rain misery upon Zimbabwe, that nation’s long-suffering people desperately seek a reed to grasp amid the storm. Perhaps that’s why so many Zimbabweans ...