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 ...

Zimbabwean musician Stella Chiweshe says that when she was growing up, she “wanted to listen to the sound of the mbira again and again.” She eventually came to feel that the best way to always hear ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

This story was first published in April 2021. Chaka Zinyemba never considered himself the counter-culture type, but his friends and family did. "When I think back, I was kind of frustrated that a lot ...

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, ...

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, ...

A MBIRA, featured on Thursday’s Google homepage, is Zimbabwe’s national instrument and has been a major part of the African country’s culture for centuries. Here is what you need to know about the ...

Google is celebrating Zimbabwe’s national instrument the mbira as part of Zimbabwe’s Culture Week, with an interactive video that allows anyone to try their hand at the unique instrument. The mbira ...