Tafadzwa "Taffie" Matiure has spent the past eight years teaching Zimbabwean musical traditions to students at Zimfest and Kutandara in Colorado. He calls what he plays "indigenous music of identity."

His father, Dr Sheasby Matiure, spent decades building the network that made this possible. Sheasby held a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Indiana University, chaired Teacher Education at the University of Zimbabwe, and had trained at Kwanongoma College in Bulawayo.

He toured with his ensemble, the Mbira Queens, and built the American Zimbabwean music community through years of festival appearances and teaching residencies. He planned to bring Taffie into that community in 2017. He died in 2016.

Taffie is currently based in Harare, where he performs monthly at Londoners Bar, coaches marimba at local high schools, and plays the annual Bira ReMbira festival.

When I got hold of him last Sunday, he was at Mereki in Warren Park D, setting up a spit roast. Mereki is Harare's open-air barbecue spot, about twenty minutes from downtown, where the grilled meat comes hot with sadza and fresh vegetables.

He told me he wants to bring this kind of authentic cultural experience to people looking at Zimbabwe from the outside. He is a man of culture at heart, and even more with the work he does.

This is the story of a legacy continued.