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, ...

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 ...

A conversation between scholar Umi Vaughan and author Mahealani Uchiyama in celebration of the release of her book The Mbira, An African Musical Tradition. The book is an overview steeped in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

May 21 (UPI) --Google is celebrating Zimbabwe's national instrument, the mbira, with a new Doodle as Zimbabwe's Culture Week begins. The mbira originated in Southern Africa and serves as the cultural ...