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 ...

Today’s Google Doodle focuses on the mbira instrument. Google Today’s doodle is also accompanied by a game wherein the user can “play” the mbira using their laptop or handheld device. Over hundreds of ...

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.

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 ...

Chaka Zinyemba's quest to master the mbira took off when he arrived in Edmonton, in Canada. He never considered himself the counter-culture type, but his friends and family did. "When I think back, I ...

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 ...

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, ...