The array mbira represents a bold reimagining of the venerable thumb‑piano lineage that has echoed across sub-Saharan Africa for centuries. While traditional mbiras feature rows of unevenly spaced ...

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American novelist and civil rights activist, James Baldwin had this to say about the importance of history in the present in an essay titled "White Man's Guilt". "History, as nearly no one seems to ...

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What are they? "Thumb piano" is a generic, westernised name for a range of different sub-Saharan lamellophones (instruments played by plucking tuned fixed metal tines or keys). Usually, thumb piano ...

It was full moon on Saturday last week when we danced to mbira music in the village. Among the guests dancing with us were Mbuya Gambiza and Mbuya Chizanga, the sisters whose ages must be around 86 or ...

PREPARATIONS are at an advanced stage for Bira Rembira to be held on September 27 at the Heritage Village in Harare. The event is billed to be the peak of the Mbira Month commemorations, which are ...

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 ...