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 ...

Chimuerenga means 'uprising', not in a metaphorical sense either. It's a Shona word that loosely translates into "revolutionary struggle". It has been adapted into the word commonly used whenever ...

In Zimbabwe's liberation war, of the 1960s and 70s, the military wings of guerrillas based in Mozambique and Zambia set up choirs to sing Chimurenga songs that derived from folk hymns and other ...

Zimbabwe: Chimurenga & Tuku Music . By AAJ Staff November 15, 2003 View read count. In all the focus the Western world has placed on the individual, it has lost sight of the family—both immediate and ...

For listeners unfamiliar with the vocal elements of Shona music, these songs will provide a wonderful awakening. And as a broad general introduction to the variety of styles and approaches of mbira ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi was welcomed in Zimbabwe on Thursday by people singing songs criticizing the West as he made his last stop on a three-nation Africa trip aimed ...

At the whack of Zimbabwe's armed liberation struggle in the 1970s, a new music genre was born and it quickly became popular as it identified and resonated with the black majority's struggle for ...

Nobuntu, an all-female a cappella group from Zimbabwe, is on a mission to spread a message of peace and love, and to introduce the world to a type of vocal music called "mbube." ...

Zimbabwean music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi's lyrics have delved into child abuse and homeless youngsters living on the streets. Now he's been chosen to serve as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N ...

Supporters of Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa cheer at a rally ahead of the 2023 general elections on August 23, at Robert Gabriel Mugabe Square in Harare, Zimbabwe, August 9, 2023.

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi was welcomed in Zimbabwe on Thursday by people singing songs criticizing the West as he made his last stop on a three-nation Africa trip aimed ...