Music

Mozambique's diverse music culture is heavily influenced by migration, particularly early Indonesian and Arabic influences. The latter is especially noticeable in northern Mozambique, where features like unanimous and ornamental singing, table tones, and the use of instruments like the violin and tambourine (daira) can be found.

The central parts of Mozambique have a diverse flora of string and wind instruments, as well as various xylophone and lamellophone types. Complicated polyrhythmics and multiformity in responsorial form characterize instrumental and vocal music. An instrumental ensemble consisting of 6-30 xylophones in five sizes appears alongside dancers and singers in a "large-scale art work" in the chopi people's rewritten dance and poetry tradition (mgodo).

Musical arcs, lamellaphones, and guitars predominate in the south, while drums are less common. Men form singing and dance groups (makwaya) at tsonga and perform songs in South African style, while popular music incorporates influences from neighboring states such as Portuguese music and urban music.

Since then, jazz has played an important role in Mozambican popular music. In the 1990s, groups like Kinamatamikuluty pioneered a unique jazz fusion by combining saxophone with the xylophone instrument timbila. Celso Paco (born 1966), a percussionist now based in Sweden, was a member of the group. Chico António (born 1958) and the group Timbila Muzimba should also be mentioned. The majority of the artists whose music has been released are from the country's southern regions. Eyuphuro, a group from the northeastern part of Mozambique that sings on makua, is an exception. Youth in Ghana, like in many other African countries, have taken up hip-hop and developed a domestic variety.