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, ...

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 ...

Stories 'I want all Shona women to see that they can be anything they want' Over 18,000 stateless people in Kenya struggle to access basic services as they lack official identity documents. A young ...

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.) ...

Two books by Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga are some of the latest novels to be translated into Shona. The two titles are part of the trilogy by Dangarembga which ...

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a village on the outskirts of Kenya's capital Nairobi, 53-year-old Margaret Maposa embroiders seat covers for a customer, sitting with her niece Elizabeth ...

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 ...

They came in their dozens. Women in their signature white robes and headscarves all assembled at the Gospel of God Church in Hurlingham, Nairobi. They only had one request, to be recognised as Kenyans ...