Stella Chiweshe: Zimbabwe’s mbira queen, rebel music star and pioneer
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- Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Chiweshe was born in July 1946 in the rural area of Mhondoro in the Mashonaland province of northern Zimbabwe. She began playing the mbira, an ancient thumb piano, in the early 1960s. At the time she was reproached by both men and women because she had dared to play an instrument that was ordinarily played by men.