EVERY September, Zimbabwe vibrates with the haunting, soul-stirring sounds of the mbira, an ancient instrument central to the country’s musical and spiritual identity. Marked as Mbira Month, this time ...
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In California, she’s built one of the world’s largest archives of Zimbabwean Shona music
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 ...
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 ...
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Mbira: Ancient sounds for a planet in crisis
In the soft clinking of mbira keys lies a world of memory, prayer, and resistance. To many Zimbabweans, the mbira is not merely an instrument, but a bridge between the living and the ancestors, ...
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