Mokoomba: Tusona – Tracings in the Sand

Mokoomba: Tusona – Tracings in the Sand

October 12, 2023

Sounds Natural and Human Listening Post 377. The Shona name for Victoria Falls, the great cataracts of the Zambezi, is “Mosi-oa-Tunya”—Smoke that Thunders—and the water’s misty roar can be heard as far as 40 km (25 mi) away. But there’s a sound from the adjacent city...
Mokoomba: Luyando

Mokoomba: Luyando

May 24, 2017

Back to the Sources Listening Post 100. The first album from the Zimbabwean band Mokoomba, released in 2012, was a rock-oriented disk with an urban, pan-African orientation. But tradition was embedded in the group’s name—Mokoomba means “respect for the river”—and...