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A FOUR-YEAR-OLD hosho instrumentalist, Kishwell Mahunye, is becoming quite a sensation his parents, and a music star, even believe he has a powerful spiritual hand guiding him.
Kishwell’s mother, Mildred Makwangara, says her son’s biggest influence was musician Vee Mhofu.
His father is Tinotenda Benjamin Mahunye of Chihota.
“He is very disciplined and quiet, but he is a short-tempered child,” said Mildred.
“He is an astonishing child, from two years of age, he just started behaving like an adult.
“Whenever we are doing our traditional healing ceremonies, he always forces himself to be there throughout the whole night or pungwe rituals.
“He often gets into a trance, starts demanding his traditional tools, he demands snuff, we just give him.
“Astonishingly, he does not sleep throughout the nights even as those who are older than him would be asleep.
“His birth was just normal but all this started when he turned two years, he plays hosho saying he is Vee Mhofu Yemukono, imitating the drills by Vee Mhofu and his band.”
Vee Mhofu said:
“What Mhofu Kishwell is showcasing at his age is real, it shows that there is a very big ancestral spirit that is still protectively driving him.
“Mbira art is for evoking spirits because everyone has his own spirits for hunting, defence, uplifting or even for destruction, all these are invited by traditional mbira art.
“’Once we fail to identify it so early and help them with the needs, we end up in worse situations.
‘’Other religions, like Christianity rebuke and strive to cast out our African spirits but all in vain.
“We all worship the same God but in different ways.”
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter