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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 ...
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 ...
That desire to take the road less travelled led him to pick up the mbira as a teenager in Zimbabwe. It's an instrument Chaka's ancestors, the Shona people, have played for thousands of years.
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 ...
The interactive Doodle starts by telling the story of a young girl who quickly fell in love with the mbira after watching an elder play the instrument. The story then follows the girl as she grows ...
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 ...
ZANU PF has made yet another promise to transform Harare's high density suburb, Mbare after clinching the parliamentary and council seats from the opposition in the just-ended plebiscite.
The 15th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICG) held from 14-19 December 2020 inscribed Malawi and Zimbabwe’s art of crafting and ...
Piniel Denga, the MDC-T MP for Mbare, is to leave his relatively safe urban based seat to run in his rural home of Chikomba in Mashonaland East province in the next poll. Denga, elected as MP for ...
Love has a sound, and in Pamoyo, a song by Adrian Lejazz, it captures the essence of love through a soul-stirring fusion of mbira, jazz, and Afrocentric rhythms. The track is not just a love song ...