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In many African cultures music and dance are important parts of religious and healing rituals. Among the Tumbuka-speaking peoples of northern Malawi, tribal healers use drumming and dancing methods to diagnose and cure a variety of ailments. Assembled in the healer’s compound, or temple, drummers play special drum rhythms and singers sing songs to “heat up” the spirits, or vimbuza, and allow the healer to go into a divinatory trance. The healer dances to the music to “cool down” the vimbuza, identifying him and the source of the patient’s illness so he can begin the curing process.
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