Today's Google Doodle is celebrating Zimbabwe's national instrument, the mbira, for Zimbabwe's Culture Week. The Google Doodle follows a Zimbabwean girl's experience of discovering and learning to ...

While that term may help us to understand the construction of the instrument, it does not do the mbira justice. The mbira is more a medium than a piece of hardware. In the Shona tradition of Zimbabwe, ...

That desire to take the road less travelled led him to pick up the mbira as a teenager in Zimbabwe. It's an instrument Chaka's ancestors, the Shona people, have played for thousands of years.

Google is celebrating Zimbabwe's Culture week with a doodle of the Mbira - a traditional musical instrument that has been played by the Shona people for over 1,000 years ...

Harare — A Japanese national, who visited Zimbabwe last year on a cultural exchange programme, has opened two mbira schools in Japan. Erika Hayashi (33), a nurse by profession, first visited ...

Google on Thursday is celebrating Zimbabwe's Culture Week with an interactive Doodle of the mbira, the country's national instrument.The mbira originated in Southern Africa and has played an ...

In the early 1960s, when Stella Chiweshe was a teenager in the southern African country of Zimbabwe, she wanted to learn mbira -- a thumb piano with metal keys that was used primarily in spirit ...

Their powerful female influence on this instrument laid the path for the next generation of women to make their own mark on the mbira. It is also through dreams that Zimbabwe saw its first and ...

The mbira is a crucial link to the past for the Shona people in Zimbabwe. Traditionally played by men, in recent years women have begun to play the instrument and are pushing its sound in a more ...

May 21 (UPI) --Google is celebrating Zimbabwe's national instrument, the mbira, with a new Doodle as Zimbabwe's Culture Week begins. The mbira originated in Southern Africa and serves as the ...