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 ...

The term chimurenga comes from the name of a legendary Shona ancestor, Murenga Sororenzou. Believed to be huge man with a head (soro) the size of an elephant's (renzou), Murenga was well known for his ...

Tendai “Baba” Maraire, better known to many as one-half of Sub Pop’s avant-rap group Shabazz Palaces, is releasing his incredible new album riZe vadZimu riZe on Brick Lane Records today under the ...

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 ...

Pan-global hip-hop by Tendai Maraire (of Shabazz Palaces) and guitarist Hussein Kalonji, dedicated to "revolutionary African women." Songs We Love: Chimurenga Renaissance, 'Girlz With Gunz' In the ...

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 ...

History records colonialism as a lingering infection of violent domination. The conquerors arrive with avarice and superior weapons and maintain order through intimidation. Sometimes, though, says a ...

Chimurenga Renaissance — the duo of Shabazz Palaces’ Tendai “Baba” Maraire and rapper Hussein Kalonji — explore the Great Zimbabwe ruins in their video for “Pop Killer,” off their Defenders Of The ...

Introduction: cross-cultural encounters: song, power, and being -- Missionary witchcrafting African being: cultural disarmament -- Purging the "heathen" song, mis/grafting the missionary hymn -- "Too ...

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 ...