Zimbabwe, a struggling African nation, has received a lot of press attention recently with its strongly contested presidential election that returned longtime dictator Robert Mugabe to power. This ...

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 ...

Zimbabwean singer Chiwoniso grew up on a soundtrack of Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin and even Mozart. But her father, an ethnomusicologist, made sure that she also knew the songs ...

In all the focus the Western world has placed on the individual, it has lost sight of the family—both immediate and extended versions, encompassing the members of a shared culture. In part that's due ...

Making their Maui debut on Tuesday, Zimbabwe’s Nobuntu is the first female group to sing in the South African style of mbube.

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, ...

One of Zimbabwe's most celebrated musician Oliver Mtukudzi 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 year ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Oliver [Photo: Courtesy] Zimbabwe’s greatest music export Oliver Mtukudzi is dead. The ...

Zimbabwean music legend, Zex Manatsa, has died. In a message posted on his Facebook page, his family said, “With great sadness we would like to let everyone know that our Father, Our Legend , Pastor ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi was welcomed in Zimbabwe on Thursday by people singing songs criticizing the West as he made his last stop on a three-nation Africa trip aimed at ...