Inspired by the belief and conviction that our children are tomorrow's leaders combined with the reality of living in a "global village", the curriculum is designed to challenge, motivate, inspire and cultivate an active interest in other cultures using the Shona culture of Zimbabwe as the primary vehicle. The current world order is one bereft of love, understanding and peace. Our children will bear the burden of our shortsightedness unless we instigate a global village of peace and hope. Education and intentional peacemaking will reduce (and hopefully eliminate), ignorance, fear and pointless confrontation. With this in mind, Zambuko Cultural & Educational Presentations^® are customized to meet the needs of each age group from elementary school through college. Focusing on youth, culture, musical traditions and spiritual beliefs of the Shona people, the program modules are: Zambuko Elementary^®, Zambuko Middle^®, Zambuko High^® and Zambuko Varsity^®. All modules are adaptable for presentation in social and cultural organizations as well. Through education Zambuko Projects^® believes it creates a global village of peace by constructing "bridges" across physical, economic and cultural divides.   -top

An extension of Zambuko Cultural & Educational Presentations^®, Zambuko Mbira Series^® introduces class participants to the millennium old mbira music traditions of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. Intellectually stimulating, emotionally uplifting, rhythmically intoxicating and spiritually vitalizing, mbira music embodies humanity,community, and spirituality while promoting peace.
Services offered include: Zambuko Mbira Lecture/Demo^®, Zambuko Mbira Performance & Experience^®, Zambuko Mbira Workshop - A Spiritual Approach^® and finally a semester long (48 hours) mbira workshop with an emphasis on the language, history, cultural and religious contexts within which the music thrives, having done so for more than a thousand years.   -top

Zambuko Spiritual Services^® offerings provide unique opportunities for both cultural organizations and religious institutions to experience the essence of African indigenous worship. The Rhythm, Ritual & Remembrance Service for Ancestors^® provides a unique opportunity to honor and remember forefathers and mothers acknowledging their presence and spiritual guardianship in daily living. Against a backdrop of mbira music, creation is honored and the gift of life appreciated through spirit invocation. The Service for Community Affirmation^® borrows heavily from the Shona culture's belief in the critical importance of extended family as a life-affirming support system. This concept is an anomaly of Western culture. This service demonstrates the meaning of life, body and spirit, as well as elements of family and community personified and embodied in the mbira instrument and its sacred music. The mbira instrument's realization of society, the significance of all its members and the call and response framework of its music, is both the mystery and reality of its healing power at individual, community and global levels.   -top