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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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

May 21st marks the beginning of Culture Week in Zimbabwe, and Google is joining in the celebration with a homepage Doodle game that lets you play Zimbabwe’s national instrument, the mbira. Today’s ...