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  • Up close with Mbira, Zimbabwe’s greatest gift to the music world

    Up close with Mbira, Zimbabwe’s greatest gift to the music world

    Long before the colonialism visited present-day Zimbabwe the people of that land had fashioned a unique musical instrument which has continued to dazzle music lovers across the world. The mbira instrument is a lamellophone whose unique sound is produced by plucking the metal keys. For the grouping of people known loosely as the Shona people,…