BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe -- The crowd at the Large City Hall here had become a sweaty, tipsy, swaying throng by the time Oliver Mtukudzi played his most controversial song, "Wasakara." As he sang in his ...

In all the focus the Western world has placed on the individual, it has lost sight of the family—both immediate and extended versions, encompassing the members of a shared culture. In part that's due ...

On September 27, Zimbabwean music sensation Gemma Griffiths headlined the Zim Health annual gala in Geneva, Switzerland. The ...

With just a few months from the presidential and parliamentary elections, the Zimbabwe government is increasingly unleashing law enforcement to quell popular Zimbabwean musicians. With their social ...

John Thomerson (left) plays the mbira next to master mbira musician “Sinyoro” Caution Shonhai. When SKyCTC Academic Adviser John Thomerson first picked up a mbira, a Southern African “thumb piano,” as ...

Zimbabwean music legend, Zex Manatsa, has died. In a message posted on his Facebook page, his family said, “With great sadness we would like to let everyone know that our Father, Our Legend , Pastor ...

A small audience gathered this year at a small theater on Duke’s East Campus to hear the story of Moyo, a fine musician and a fine man who was murdered during Zimbabwe’s civil war in the 1970s. The ...

Zim Ngqawana has been hailed by Johannesburg's leading daily paper, The Star, as "The most visible, hardest working younger man in jazz." He is one of the new generation of South African musicians who ...