There was Taarab, and now there is Rusha Roho Taarab. One is the famous century-old genre synonymous with the East African coast, the other, Rusha Roho, still retains the traditional soulful verses, ...

Not so long ago, Christopher John's days were spent herding his family's goats and cows in a rural part of Zanzibar, the tropical island off the coast of Tanzania. But he always loved music and used ...

Tanzania — TANZANIAN dance music is not dead. It's just very, very tired, broke, and forgotten, somewhere in the corner of a dusty bar in Buguruni, sipping warm beer and wondering how it all went so ...

Zanzibar — The Zanzibar Dhow Countries Music Academy (DCMA) is proudly celebrating the extraordinary journey of Tryphon Evarist, a gifted multi-instrumentalist, music educator and artistic director ...

At the archives of Radio Tanzania, more than 15,000 reel-to-reel tapes are stacked in floor-to-ceiling shelves. Each band, musician and recording date is painstakingly notated. The tapes reside inside ...

Tanzanian artists perform Taarab music at the opening ceremony of the 2024 China-Tanzania Culture and Tourism Year in Beijing, May 15, 2024. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] 2024 marks the 60th ...