In Zimbabwe, the ceremony known as kurova guva is widely held by Shona speakers in order to reintegrate deceased family members within the patrilineage as ancestral spirits, or vadzimu. Conducted a year after burial, kurova guva involves a heterogeneous musical environment that distinguishes it ...
('kurova guva') is viewed as one of the biggest doctrinal problems that the Roman Catholic Church in Zimbabwe ever faced. However, the ultimate acceptance of the 'kurova guva' ritual as an approved liturgical practice in the Church, has become a much bigger doctrinal and liturgical success ...
Yearbook for Traditional MusicRutsate, J. (2010). "Mhande" dance in the "kurova guva" ceremony: An enactment of Karanga spirituality, Yearbook for Traditional Music, 42, 81-99, Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/41201381, Accessed: 20-07-2016....
It will be argued that the ritual-myth of Kurova Guva rests on the acceptance that someone physically dies. However, the physical death of the flesh is not the ultimate terminus of 'human' life. The Kurova Guva ritual-myth ceremony reasserts the continued spiritual existence of the dead ...