Zimbabwe: Chimurenga & Tuku Music . By AAJ Staff November 15, 2003 View read count. In all the focus the Western world has placed on the individual, it has lost sight of the family—both immediate and ...

Chimurenga music has always been known to be a genre with lyrics that are critical of social and political ills, advocating for peace and justice. Through songs like Corruption, Mamvemve and Vana ...

Harare — ZIMBABWE Music Awards have scrapped the Chimurenga music category and replaced it with the socially conscious lyrics category, an official said last week. Announcing this year's ...

Born Thomas Tafirenyika Muchadura Mapfumo. The epitome of a Chimurenga music guru. With a career spanning over 50 years, Mapfumo, whom his followers call ...

Zimbabwean music legend and Chimurenga pioneer Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo will perform his final concert in the United Kingdom ...

BARELY ten years after a number of young Chimurenga music artistes emerged to give a stiff challenge to Chimurenga guru Thomas Mapfumo, all of them have since gone silent.

Thomas Mapfumo’s African Classics is a 14-track capsule of the history and journey of Chimurenga music. The CD contains the four main ingredients of the genre: lyrics laden with rocket-propelled ...