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In Shona, means "struggle." Describes the mbira-based popular music of social protest pioneered during the 1970s by Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited, and taken up by others Zimbabwen pop musicians. – Courtesy Afropop Worldwide: www.afropop.org


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