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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Zimbabwean musician Stella Chiweshe says that when she was growing up, she “wanted to listen to the sound of the mbira again and again.” She eventually came to feel that the best way to always hear ...

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Harare, Zimbabwe – Dzivarasekwa, a nondescript township on the southwestern rims of Zimbabwe’s capital, copies the 1907 template of the first ghetto, Harari (now Mbare): grim, monotonous, matchbox ...

Google is celebrating Zimbabwe's Culture Week with an interactive doodle of the Mbira - a musical instrument traditional to the Shona people. The game tells the story of a Zimbabwean girl who watches ...

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, ...

A MBIRA, featured on Thursday’s Google homepage, is Zimbabwe’s national instrument and has been a major part of the African country’s culture for centuries. Here is what you need to know about the ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. Today’s Google Doodle is an interactive game that lets you play the mbira, a popular ...

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 ...

Pioneering Zimbabwean musician, storyteller and actor who had a significant political and spiritual influence on her country Stella Chiweshe, who has died aged 76, was a rebel musician who transformed ...

Thursday’s Google Doodle, celebrated the mbira, an ancient, musical instrument of the Shona people in Zimbabwe, in honor of Zimbabwe’s Culture Week. The mbira is Zimbabwe’s national instrument. Google ...