How do you explain falling in love?” asks Erica Azim. “In a certain way, it’s an impossible question.” For more than half a ...

Stone craftsmanship has deep roots in the Shona culture, most notably seen at Great Zimbabwe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. They came in their dozens. Women in their signature white robes and headscarves all ...

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, ...

Can you explain how you fall in love?” asks Erica Azim. “In a certain way it’s an impossible question.” Yet it’s a conundrum the Berkeley native has contemplated for half a century, every time she’s ...

The Shona people arrived in Kenya from what was then Rhodesia ­– now Zimbabwe – as Christian missionaries in the 1960s. They carried Rhodesian passports and were registered as British subjects. After ...

Field recordings by Paul Berliner. Originally released as The soul of mbira : traditions of the Shona people of Rhodesia (H-72054). Compact disc. Original liner notes by Paul Berliner (20 p. : ports.) ...

Originally released in 1971 as analog disc (H-72043). Original liner notes (16 p. : ill.) inserted in container. Dumisani Abraham Maraire, mbira, vocals ; Nkosana ...