Blessings Chidakwa — All eyes are on the newly-built Mbare Musika Market, which is set to be commissioned by President Mnangagwa tomorrow, setting a benchmark for modern and affordable trading ...

HARARE — A sense of cultural pride filled the club as Virimai Nhedega enchanted his fans with the rhythmic melodies of the Mbira, a traditional Zimbabwean musical instrument celebrated for its ...

This comes after a fire engulfed Mbare Musika early last week, resulting in the loss of merchandise worth thousands of United States dollars. Barely days after the Mbare Musika fire, a shop along ...

Several low income residential areas in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, have run out of Starlink capacity just a week after the service went live the country. This demonstrates that the Starlink ...

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 ...

The twing-twang of the mbira instrument, fuses with a fluid tapestry of guitars ... Mukanya’s wives and children As the music life made him popular in the streets of Mbare where he lived and pursued ...

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It was derived from one of the standard chord progressions used in classical mbira pieces ... They spent the night in Mbare and met the next morning at the Jameson House studio on the 11th ...

A virtuoso of the mbira, a plucked instrument, he shared his knowledge with the wider world to preserve wisdom handed down orally. He died of Covid-19. By Jon Pareles This obituary is part of a ...

The mbira consists of a handheld hardwood soundboard (gwariva) affixed with a series of thin metal keys, which are plucked by the thumbs and forefinger – it is sometimes called a ‘thumb piano’.

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 ...