Pop singer Chiwoniso learned how to play the mbira, an African xylophone, despite the fact that women in her native Zimbabwe were not permitted to play the instrument. She joins us to talk about defying female stereotypes in her new album, "Rebel Woman," written from the eye storm of the political and economic turmoil in Zimbabwe.
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