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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Also known as the thumb piano, the mbira is an African musical instrument that has been around in one form or another for at least 3,000 years. Now, however, scientists have developed a new version ...