Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo, the Zimbabwean bandleader, singer and songwriter, turned 70 last year. Mapfumo, one of the country's most beloved musicians, was the creator of chimurenga music, or "music of ...

AS Zimbabwe’s music industry evolves at a blistering pace, seasoned artistes risk fading into the background. But veteran drummer and arts manager Sam Mataure is defying both time and illness by ...

Mapfumo performed a homecoming show in the country last month, after spending over a decade-and-a-half in self-imposed exile. Thomas Mapfumo, 'Lion Of Zimbabwe,' Returns From Exile With Triumphant ...

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 ...

I must admit that I was more than a little nervous to speak with Thomas Mapfumo as I entered his number into my iPhone last week. There aren’t many living musicians I admire and respect as much as I ...

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 ...