Will Ross reports from Zanzibar and Mombasa on how traditional Taarab music is responding to the challenge of new influences. In the 1930's the great Taarab singer, Siti Bint Saad, was a prized ...

ZANZIBAR: ZANZIBAR, The peaceful Island of Taarab, went a mile ahead with the Trace Awards & Summit, which celebrated the African and Afro-descendant musical excellence. The awards ceremony not only ...

These veterans retained Taarab’s signature tune, melody, and songcraft, as it were since the Sultan of Zanzibar, brought bands from the Middle East to entertain him in the 1880s. Swahili lyrics ...

The Tabu Osusa led Ketabul Music Project, of 2016, said this of Binti Saad and Taarab, “A Zanzibar woman who was a descendant of slaves is generally credited with bringing Swahili influences to ...