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, ...

WILLIAMSTOWN -- When high-ranking Zimbabwean mbira player Forward Kwenda absorbs himself in playing his instrument, the results can be blindingly electric. "Nothing goes through my mind," Kwenda said.

When SKyCTC Academic Adviser John Thomerson first picked up a mbira, a Southern African “thumb piano,” as a pandemic side project, he wanted to add to the long list of foreign instruments in his ...

“Can you explain how you fall in love?” asks Erica Azim. “In a certain way it’s an impossible question.” Yet it’s a conundrum the Berkeley native has contemplated for half a century, every time she’s ...

Two visiting artists will bring Zimbabwean music for the mbira — a traditional instrument that has been popular in that part of Africa for centuries — to the Pitzer Center on the UC Davis campus at 2 ...

The Center for World Music presents Mbira Bhururu: Songs of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. Experience the rich cultural and musical heritage of Zimbabwe through the traditional sounds of the mbira ...

Harare — THE first Zimbabwean to play mbira in church and feature in a movie, Chikakarara Simon Mashoko died two months ago in his home area Masvingo. Details of his death are still sketch because ...

In all the focus the Western world has placed on the individual, it has lost sight of the family—both immediate and extended versions, encompassing the members of a shared culture. In part that's due ...

The Djembe: From West African Villages to Global Stages The djembe drum dates back roughly between 400 and 800 years, created ...