• Intro
    • About
    • Acknowledgements
    • Guide to Citation and Use
    • References
    • Contact
  • Early Years
    • Overview
    • Charama Eats His Beard
    • From Mushongahande to Morton Farm
    • Interpreting for the Spirits
    • Kachonda’s Karimba
    • The Woman Who Kept a Lizard
    • The Year of Drought
    • Threshing Songs
    • “Stealing” the Guitar
    • Father’s Mukube
    • Learning Chipendani
    • Herding Songs
    • Conclusion
  • Musical Life
    • Overview
    • Rhumba Dreams
    • Taking Up Mbira
    • Zaranyika
    • Mbira Dreams
    • Meeting VaMukwani
    • Meeting Sekuru Gora
    • Composing Songs
    • Destitution
    • Making Mbira
    • Mbira Tools
    • Conclusion
  • Independence
    • Overview
    • Dreaming Independence
    • Praying for Rain
    • VaMutumwa: God’s Messenger
    • Resettling in Rushinga
    • Half Leopard, Half Lion
    • Performing at CHOGM
    • Rushinga with the BBC
    • Resuming the Guitar
    • A terrible year
    • Reflections
    • Conclusion
  • Mbira
    • Overview
    • Origins: Music from the Ocean
    • Gwenyambira: The Player
    • Nziyo: Songs
    • Gwariva: The Instrument
    • Chakwi: The Name
    • Mutemo: The Law of Mbira
    • Hosho: Lighting the Way
    • Kwenje: The Spirit of Dance
    • Conclusion
  • Ancestors
    • Overview
    • Murenga: Founding Ancestor
    • Guniuswa: Birthplace of Mediumship
    • Biri Parts the Zambezi
    • Entering Zimbabwe
    • Masvingo’s Rise and Fall
    • Dzivarasekwa: The Giving of Names
    • Murozvi: Minister of Land
    • Splintering Into Groups
    • Adopting Totems
    • Mutota’s Kingship
    • Mapondera: The Last Mutota Ruler
    • The European Struggle for Territory
    • Disappearing Shrines
    • Conclusion
  • Explore
    • Overview
    • Instruments
    • Images
    • Songs
    • Maps
    • Family Tree
    • Timeline
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Sekuru’s Stories

Sekuru’s Stories

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    • Matepe
    • Mbira
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  • Intro
    • About
    • Acknowledgements
    • Guide to Citation and Use
    • References
    • Contact
  • Early Years
    • Overview
    • Charama Eats His Beard
    • From Mushongahande to Morton Farm
    • Interpreting for the Spirits
    • Kachonda’s Karimba
    • The Woman Who Kept a Lizard
    • The Year of Drought
    • Threshing Songs
    • “Stealing” the Guitar
    • Father’s Mukube
    • Learning Chipendani
    • Herding Songs
    • Conclusion
  • Musical Life
    • Overview
    • Rhumba Dreams
    • Taking Up Mbira
    • Zaranyika
    • Mbira Dreams
    • Meeting VaMukwani
    • Meeting Sekuru Gora
    • Composing Songs
    • Destitution
    • Making Mbira
    • Mbira Tools
    • Conclusion
  • Independence
    • Overview
    • Dreaming Independence
    • Praying for Rain
    • VaMutumwa: God’s Messenger
    • Resettling in Rushinga
    • Half Leopard, Half Lion
    • Performing at CHOGM
    • Rushinga with the BBC
    • Resuming the Guitar
    • A terrible year
    • Reflections
    • Conclusion
  • Mbira
    • Overview
    • Origins: Music from the Ocean
    • Gwenyambira: The Player
    • Nziyo: Songs
    • Gwariva: The Instrument
    • Chakwi: The Name
    • Mutemo: The Law of Mbira
    • Hosho: Lighting the Way
    • Kwenje: The Spirit of Dance
    • Conclusion
  • Ancestors
    • Overview
    • Murenga: Founding Ancestor
    • Guniuswa: Birthplace of Mediumship
    • Biri Parts the Zambezi
    • Entering Zimbabwe
    • Masvingo’s Rise and Fall
    • Dzivarasekwa: The Giving of Names
    • Murozvi: Minister of Land
    • Splintering Into Groups
    • Adopting Totems
    • Mutota’s Kingship
    • Mapondera: The Last Mutota Ruler
    • The European Struggle for Territory
    • Disappearing Shrines
    • Conclusion
  • Explore
    • Overview
    • Instruments
    • Images
    • Songs
    • Maps
    • Family Tree
    • Timeline
Sekuru’s Stories

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  • Musical Instruments
    • Matepe
    • Mbira
    • Ngoma
  • Uncategorized

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Sekuru’s Stories is a digital public humanities project featuring the renowned Zimbabwean mbira player, oral historian, and ritual specialist Sekuru Tute Chigamba. Bringing Sekuru Chigamba’s oral narratives, or nhoroondo, together with recordings, photographs, and maps, it presents Zimbabwean musical and cultural heritage in an interactive format. Use the top navigation menu to read through Sekuru’s Stories, or explore a variety of non-linear pathways through the site, including an instrument catalogue, image gallery, audio playlist, and more.

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Sekuru’s Stories is a born-digital monograph featuring Zimbabwe mbira player, oral historian, and ritual specialist Sekuru Tute Chigamba.

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