02 Shangara (1949, Zimbabwe) Drinking song with Njari (Mbira).

Dr Perminus Matiure was brought up in a mbira playing family, he started playing mbira at the age of 12 and later studied mbira at the Masters and Ph.D. levels. He is the founder member of a contemporary mbira ensemble called "Zvirimudeze". Dr Matiure (Ethnomusicology Senior Lecturer, University of Namibia) introduces how the njari is a type of mbira that was popularized in Zimbabwe and slowly disappeared during the last 50 years. Matiure emphasizes how different languages used to be combined in Gweru (Shona and Ndebele). This song is performed by Manyoni Wanyamande and his wife in Gweru, Zimbabwe.