Zimbabwe: Are Translations in Music Necessary?

1 February 2016

Devera Ngwena Jazz Band, one of Zimbabwe's most popular groups of the 1980s, left Harare for London on May 18, 1987.

Hardly stopping to breathe in the new air, the outfit were soon belting out their brand of Zimbabwean music at the Town and Country Club. The walls reverberated to the fast beat of Devera Ngwena and the heavier sounds of Johnny Clegg and Savuka with whom they were sharing the stage.

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