Zimbabwe: Google Salutes Mbira Music Heritage

Some have devised the name "thumb piano" to try and give the mbira instrument an exotic name. It was in a similar vein that an allusion to "thick porridge" was made as reference to sadza.

Well, mbira is mbira and sadza will always be sadza -- no exotic terms can replace such original names.

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