Africa Music Library (AML), a non-governmental music collective dedicated to the archiving, preservation and study of African music, and connecting older and newer generation of African musicians ...

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 ...

The combination of being a seasoned banker and a prolific mbira player, is simply a rarity. Dealing with figures by the working hours and switching to thumping the metal pieces and strumming the ...

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 ...

Pioneering Zimbabwean musician, storyteller and actor who had a significant political and spiritual influence on her country Stella Chiweshe, who has died aged 76, was a rebel musician who transformed ...

September is a month which we dedicate to celebrating the mbira instrument. Zimbabwe has been highly associated with mbira music as it has seen great artists and legends like Chiwoniso Maraire, Stella ...

Terrence Musekiwa, from the arts and culture centre on the outskirts of Harare. will represent Zimbabwe at the Venice Biennale. This makes him the sixth artist mentored at Dzimbanhete to make it to ...

Chaka Zinyemba's quest to master the mbira took off when he arrived in Edmonton, in Canada. He never considered himself the counter-culture type, but his friends and family did. "When I think back, I ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Chaka Zinyemba plays ...

Could you use a bit of Zen in your life? Like all of us? What if I told you there is an instrument that will calm you down from its first note. That is the effect that Joachim Cooder's mbira, a typeof ...