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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 ...

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 ...

Nota Baloyi sparked backlash after dismissing Zimbabwean artists and arguing that South Africa’s music industry does not need support from Africa.

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 ...

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, ...

Oliver Mtukudzi, one of Zimbabwe’s most celebrated musicians, died Wednesday of an undisclosed ailment, a former colleague has said. “He has rested. He had been in and out of the hospital since last ...