Wicknell Chivayo has sparked debate after pledging up to US$1.5 million to Thomas Mapfumo for a possible wedding or birthday ...

World renowned and Zimbabwean sculptor and businessman Bryn Taurai Mteki, affectionately known as Sekurutau, has emerged as a ...

Zimbabwe's music industry is gripped by one question: will Chimurenga music legend Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo accept businessman Sir Wicknell Chivayo's US$500,000 offer to perform at fellow musician Jah ...

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The constant political and social unrest in Zimbabwe stemming from its oppressed period of colonization when it was wrongly known as Rhodesia, spawned chimurenga music—the music of struggle and ...

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 Mapfumo is one of Zimbabwe’s most well -known musicians. He’s recognized not only for his music but his political activism. Through his music he’s advocated for equal rights and been an ...

Mapfumo performed a homecoming show in the country last month, after spending over a decade-and-a-half in self-imposed exile. Thomas Mapfumo, 'Lion Of Zimbabwe,' Returns From Exile With Triumphant ...

Zimbabwean songwriter Thomas Mapfumo will speak at Northwestern on Friday about his use of song as a form of resistance. Mapfumo, who wrote music as a way to protest the white-nationalist government ...

Thomas Mapfumo was invited to play at the House of Blues as the pinnacle of their celebration of Black History Month last week. This is high praise from a venue that has it’s ceiling covered with ...

Chimurenga musician, Thomas Mapfumo, says he is currently working on a 10-track album. “We don’t have a title for it as yet, we are still working on it. It’s all about the problems that the world is ...