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… Chiwoniso continues talking about her love and trust in the young women entering into the performing arts in Zim ; and her adoration for the women in the countryside whom she loves joining in music. The recording ends with Chi giving a beautiful description of a communal jamming and dancing with women in the countryside; and a line from a song… Chiwoniso Maraire was an accomplished Zimbabwe singer, songwriter and mbira artist from a family of musicians and music-scholars; she died 24 July 2013. The complete interview is archived at: http://archive.org/details/Voices_from_Harare_289 From: http://both-sides-of-the-zambezi.tumblr.com/
About the place
Harare is a city of about 1,542,813 people in Harare, Zimbabwe. OttoAnna lists 29 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “Book Cafe, Harare, Zimbabwe - Chiwoniso Maraire “this is our future…”” by radio continental drift – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0