ABOUT Othnell Moyo

Othnell Moyo also known as “”Mangoma”” (freely translated as “Drums in Shona and the one with Music in IsiNdebele”) is a multi-talented, internationally touring artist and an ethnomusicological researcher and preservation activist, deeply rooted in Zimbabwean culture, who makes 75% of the instruments he plays himself. He was trained as a traditional dancer, actor and musician and has since studied and acquired detailed knowledge of a vast range of local traditional instruments, musical styles and rhythms as well as global and contemporary ones. He plays and performs with the diversity of his skills while advocating for the significance of education and preservation around his country’s rich cultural history, which was forbidden and destroyed under Colonial reign.

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