Ruben Mutekane invented Ndjerendje, a musical instrument that he uses to accompany social intervention songs while singing around Maputo, Mozambique. In the following video by Miguel Mangueze ...

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The words of Miles Davis ring as true on the streets of New York as they do in Maputo, Mozambique. And one thing both places have in common is a love of jazz. But the music coming out of the southeast ...

MAPUTO, MozambiqueMAPUTO, Mozambique — Mozambicans are planning marches across the country to honor Azagaia, a popular protest rapper and fierce government critic, who died last week. Memorial marches ...

Sculptures made from decommissioned weaponry are known as war art. Mozambique’s most famous son is the war artist Gonzalo Mabunda, a sculptor in his thirties who has exhibited in the British Museum in ...

Ivan Mazuze is a Norway-based composer, award-winning saxophonist and world jazz artist of Mozambique origin. Mazuze initiated his studies in music in 1987 at the National Music School in his home ...

We speak with Dipti Bhatnagar, climate justice activist based in Mozambique, about the recent death on March 9 of the popular rapper and cultural icon Azagaia. He was just 38 years old. He inspired ...

Protesters take part in a march supporting rapper Azagaia in Maputo, Mozambique, Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Mozambicans are planning marches across the country to honor Azagaia, whose real name was ...