Zimbabwean hymnody

Zimbabwean hymnody In Zimbabwe the interaction between missionaries and African musicians has yielded hymnody that captures the spirit of the country’s churches. The southern region of Africa has a long history of interaction between missionaries and indigenous tribes. As African independence movements (See African hymnody*) spread throughout the 1960s, the development of hymnody conceived by Africans was influenced by the rise of African Independent (Initiated) Churches free from the influence of colonial missionaries, the results of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), and the efforts of Protestant missionaries who were informed by modern anthropological and ethnomusicological...