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News Zimbabwe » Culture: What is a Mbira? Google Doodle Celebrates Musical Instrument From Zimbabwe

News channel or source: https://www.newsweek.com/google-doodle-mbira-instrument-zimbabwe-culture-week-shona-people-1505618

Published on: Wednesday 20 May 2020

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Today's Google Doodle is celebrating Zimbabwe's national instrument, ...

News Zimbabwe » Culture: In Zimbabwe, a small publisher that helped launch big voices shuts down

News channel or source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/12/28/in-zimbabwe-a-small-publisher-that-helped-launch-big-voices-shuts-down

Published on: Wednesday 27 December 2023

Harare, Zimbabwe – In 2006, a small but supportive publisher helped Zimbabwean author Valerie Tagwira make the transition from doctor to published author, picking up her first novel, The Uncertainty ...

News Zimbabwe » Culture: In Zimbabwe, Toxic Masculinity is Driving Male Suicide Rates | Opinion

News channel or source: https://www.newsweek.com/zimbabwe-toxic-masculinity-driving-male-suicide-rates-opinion-1576510

Published on: Wednesday 17 March 2021

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. From how we greet each other, to the way we think, speak and behave, ...

News Zimbabwe » Culture: Be Soothed by the Music of the Zimbabwean Mbira in Today’s Google Doodle

News channel or source: https://observer.com/2020/05/mbira-music-zimbabwe-national-instrument-culture-week/

Published on: Thursday 21 May 2020

Today’s Google Doodle focuses on the mbira instrument. Google Today’s doodle is also accompanied by a game wherein the user can “play” the mbira using their laptop or handheld device. Over hundreds of ...

News Zimbabwe » Culture: Zimbabwe: Culture Week Fiesta in Top Gear

News channel or source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201105171148.html

Published on: Tuesday 17 May 2011

Gweru — CULTURE Week celebrations that opened at Gweru Civic Centre in the Midlands Province at the weekend started on a high note with various cultural and arts groups showcasing the diversity of ...

News Zimbabwe » Culture: Zimbabwe’s Powerful Music of Struggle

News channel or source: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/zimbabwes-powerful-music-of-struggle

Published on: Tuesday 20 March 2018

In April of 1980, when Bob Marley arrived to headline the independence celebrations that would see Rhodesia become Zimbabwe, his song “Zimbabwe,” the centerpiece of the “Survival” album, was the most ...

News Zimbabwe » Culture: Destination: Zimbabwe

News channel or source: https://www.salon.com/2006/06/15/zimbabwe_9/

Published on: Thursday 15 June 2006

Underlying all Zimbabwe culture is our ongoing battle for justice, the concept of Chimurenga (taken from the Shona word for “struggle” or “outcry”). Beginning with the 1896 revolt, or First Chimurenga ...

News Zimbabwe » Culture: Zimbabwe’s crocodile industry rises against the tide

News channel or source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2018/5/21/zimbabwes-crocodile-industry-rises-against-the-tide

Published on: Sunday 20 May 2018

Binga, Zimbabwe – Basking in Zimbabwe’s northern Zambezi Valley, the Nile crocodile, Africa’s largest freshwater predator, is at ease in this hot and humid habitat. Less comfortable, however, are the ...

News Zimbabwe » Culture: Zimbabwe: Great Zimbabwe - Debunking the Myth of Tyrants and Forced Labour

News channel or source: https://allafrica.com/stories/202606170040.html

Published on: Tuesday 16 June 2026

For more than a century, Great Zimbabwe has stood at the centre of a powerful story about the Zimbabwe culture. This remarkable African civilization flourished in southern Africa during the Middle ...

News Zimbabwe » Culture: Great Zimbabwe: debunking the myth of tyrants and forced labour

News channel or source: https://theconversation.com/great-zimbabwe-debunking-the-myth-of-tyrants-and-forced-labour-283990