Harare — CHIMURENGA music guru Thomas Mapfumo has unplugged his electric guitars, gone back to his old classics and released an irresistible mbira gem. Titled Thomas Mapfumo Unplugged, the veteran ...

“Chimurenga” — the Zimbabwean word for revolutionary struggle popularised by musician Thomas Mapfumo — comes from the name of a mythical late 19th-century priest, Murenga (or Mulenga). The priest told ...

Ngoma Yarira (The Drums Are Sounding); Pamuromo Chete (It’s Only Talk); Pfumvu Pa ruzevha (Hardship In The Reserves); Butsu Mutandrika (Oversized boots); Shumba (The Lion); Chauya Chirizevha (Rural ...

The constant political and social unrest in Zimbabwe stemming from its oppressed period of colonization when it was wrongly known as Rhodesia, spawned chimurenga music—the music of struggle and ...