The Timeless Rhythm of the Sea In the warm waters surrounding Kilwa Kisiwani, a small island along Tanzania's southern coast, ...

Mariam Hamdani tunes her ganoun gently, the sunlight catching her turquoise ring as she takes time to calibrate each string with the help of an iPhone app. Her henna-highlighted hair peeks out from ...

If hot and sweaty nights of endless dancing are your thing, then Tanzania might just be your ideal holiday destination. Its live music scene is dominated by two distinct genres. One is called muziki ...

ZANZIBAR, like Timbuktu and Samarkand, is one of those mythically romantic names, but unlike the other two, the reality lives up to the image. Stone Town, the capital, is a maze of narrow lanes with ...

Here’s an improbable second chance in as many months to hear African taraab music performed live. At the World Music Festival in September the sprawling Culture Musical Club made its U.S. debut, ...

Taarab music has come of age. Gone are the days when lovers of the soulful melodies merely sat back and listened as their favourite songs were played. Today, Taarab fans are packing entertainment ...

Zanzibar — Zanzibar, a pair of islands just off the Indian Ocean coast of Tanzania, is best known for slave-trading sultans, exotic spices, beautiful tropical beaches and high living. It became part ...

Of all the exotic bands to land in Chicago during the ongoing World Music Festival, one stands apart from the rest. But it’s not just geographical distance that distinguished the appearance of the ...

Zanzibar music lovers everywhere are mourning the loss of legendary musician Makame Faki Makame, who died on January 18, 2020, at the age of 77, at Global hospital in Stone Town, Zanzibar, following a ...

When a genre of music that has changed very little of its original format over a period of almost a century begins to embrace contemporary influences, then its traditional fanbase is often stunned by ...