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Great Zimbabwe's Mambo Chikanda and the Mbira War of 1348
By 1348, Great Zimbabwe's Mambo Chikanda faced an unprecedented threat: not from rival kingdoms, but from a musical rebellion that had festered for over a decade. The mbira, once a sacred instrument of spirit mediumship, had been outlawed, its players exiled to the Dande region. But the exiles, led by the medium Dzivaguru, turned the mbira into a weapon of resistance, using trance-driven ceremonies to rally the vaShona against the stone palace. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the 1348 Mbira War — a conflict where the final assault on the Hill Complex was preceded by days of…
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