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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zimbabwe is known internationally for its Shona sculptures but it is also known for the mbira - a traditional musical instrument made popular by the Chimurenga musician Thomas Mapfumo. Albert Chimedza ...

Harare — After the failure of several recording deals, Musha Waparara Mbira ensemble finally broke the grounds paving the way for all the other mbira groups to record. Starting as early as 1989, the ...

Last week I bumped into this young man from one of Harare's private schools. He was holding a guitar in his hand and he told me that he was learning to play it although he was finding it difficult. I ...