Calls for hero status for ‘Mbira Queen’ Mbuya Chiweshe

A DARK cloud hung over Zimbabwe yesterday following the death of popular mbira music queen, Stella Rambisai Chiweshe, popularly known as Mbuya Chiweshe.

The internationally-renowned mbira musician was born on July 8, 1946, in Mujumi Village in Mhondoro.

She succumbed to cancer of the brain yesterday morning at her Kuwadzana home in Harare.

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