MOKOOMBA

African Fusion • Zimbabwe
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bundance Mutori was just 14 when he began playing with the other members of Mokoomba. It was in 2002, when they were at school together at Mosi-Oa-Tunya High in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, and he remembers that their biggest problem was getting hold of instruments. "We didn't have our own, and even at school when we had a music class we didn't have any guitars or keyboards," he says. "But my dad used to play in church and had a bass guitar at home, and he first showed me how to play. From then on, I was practising by myself or jamming with the guys."

Now, in their mid-20s, Mokoomba are being feted as Africa's most internationally successful young band after a rise that is as deserved as it has been remarkable. After all, they come from a country with an international musical profile that has sadly declined since the glory days
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African Fusion 2012
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