The centre is housed in a large private compound owned by Moya A. Malamusi and includes an office, the archival collections, some guest rooms for visiting researchers and a special building called the Jacaranda House which serves as a Museum of Ethnographic Objects open to visitors from schools and the public.
External researchers, cooperating with the centre include Kayombo kaChinyeka and Moses Yotamu from Zambia, Albert Bisaso from Uganda, and Vera Mwinuka from Tanzania.
The internationally renowned cultural anthropologist Gerhard Kubik is also associated with the center and spends long periods of study at the institution every year.
[3] Dr. Malamusi's research group is in contact with other institutions across East and southern Africa including the Department of Fine and Performing Arts of the University Of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania through Dr. Mitchel Strumpf, and the International Library of African Music at Rhodes University, South Africa.
Over a period of 21 years they have built up a vast collection of recordings on audio and video tape, estimated to amount about 4,500 individual items.