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 ...

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, ...

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Videocassette release of film produced in 1990. Presents the music of the mbira, a small African musical instrument with flat metal keys. From traditional rituals of music and dance, through the ...

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, ...

South Africa's Sheer Sound label launched its Sheer Africa series a few years ago in order to highlight specific instruments and styles from the continent. Each edition has benefited from attractive ...

Popularly known by his totem Hungwe, which refers to the fish eagle, Lovemore Salari is an unsung mbira maestro — being a player, maker and trainer of the traditional instrument. Born on August 26, ...

The documentary Mbira Talks, about a Zimbabwean-Canadian musician’s relationship with an instrument once banned during colonization, took a long time to make. We know this because Moyo Rainos Mutamba ...

Videocassette release of film produced in 1990. Presents the music of the mbira, a small African musical instrument with flat metal keys. From traditional rituals of music and dance, through the ...

May 21 (UPI) --Google is celebrating Zimbabwe's national instrument, the mbira, with a new Doodle as Zimbabwe's Culture Week begins. The mbira originated in Southern Africa and serves as the cultural ...