More than any other artist except perhaps Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, Thomas Mapfumo has become Zimbabwe's musical ambassador to the world. That's ironic, because while the people of his country celebrate ...

Thomas Tafirenyika Mapfumo (born 1945) is a Zimbabwean musician known as “The Lion of Zimbabwe” and “Mukanya” for his immense popularity and for the political influence he wields through his music, ...

United States based Chimurenga music icon, Thomas Mukanya Mapfumo, has attacked the so-called Chinese and Western mega deals in his much-awaited 12-track album, Danger Zone, released last week. In the ...

Mapfumo performed a homecoming show in the country last month, after spending over a decade-and-a-half in self-imposed exile. After a 14-year absence, Thomas Mapfumo and The Blacks Unlimited rocked ...

Zimbabwe’s exiled chimurenga music guru Thomas Mapfumo claims that the ruling Zanu PF government has turned him into an despite producing and singing inspirational songs during the liberation struggle ...

Out of fear that Robert Mugabe’s government will have him arrested, the Zimbabwean singer and guitarist Thomas Mapfumo has lived in exile in Eugene, Ore., since 2000. Mapfumo’s chimurenga music, or ...

Wambura Mitaru looked out at the crowd — a couple hundred strong but small for College Street Music Hall — and smiled. Half of the audience was still sitting down, a couple tiers from the stage. More ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chimurenga nights -- Rhodesia -- England is the chameleon, and I the fly -- Singing Shona -- When the spirit comes -- Songs for the book of history -- Bishop and pawn -- Agony of victory -- Zimbabwe - ...

July 20, 2018 • Ebba Chitambo, 66, made music during Zimbabwe's fight for independence. Now, he's giving advice to a new generation of musicians about writing political music.