Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Thursday June 30, 2011 file photo, Zimbabwe music superstar, Oliver Mutukudzi plays in his music academy in Norton ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Thursday June 30, 2011 file photo, Zimbabwe music superstar, Oliver Mutukudzi plays in his music academy in Norton ...

Music and politics have always been intertwined, from "Yankee Doodle" to "A Change is Gonna Come." And that's true in Zimbabwe, too — a country that is now facing a historic political transition. In ...

Info forwarded from Professor Ric Alviso, CSU Northridge professor and UCLA Ethnomusicology alum. Professor Alviso did his fieldwork in Zimbabwe with the Chigambas, master musicians and dancers, and ...

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, ...

In Harare, Zimbabwe, on Saturday, April 28, it happened. "I thought maybe I wasn't going to be able to come back here while I was still alive," mused Mapfumo the day before the big show. "But by the ...

Winky D’s hit Ibotso has seen him removed from stage by police. Screengrab/Happy Again/winkyonline The lyrics he was singing include the line: Ini ndiri muimbi chete handina pfumo handina bakatwa. (I ...