The mbira, or “thumb piano,” a traditional African instrument, is declining in popularity in big cities, a musician and seller of traditional musical instruments from Cape Town, South Africa told ...

Identifying faulty drugs or diagnosing kidney problems could one day be as simple as playing an instrument and analyzing the sound. Bioengineer William Grover built his first mbira-inspired sensor ...

If you said it’s one of the many names for an African thumb piano, you’d be right. If you know the Everett-based band Kalimba, you not only answered correctly, you probably know what a great Earth, ...

In 1899 writer Joseph Conrad used an empty Huntley & Palmers tin as a symbol of British colonial power in Africa.Reading's world famous biscuit makers started in 1822 and by 1900 were the largest ...