So as we've heard Taarab in Mombasa as well as Zanzibar, is always absorbing new influences like the people of the Swahili Coast themselves. But there are a number of dedicated musicians who are ...

But why did this genre, which borrows from Swahili, Arab and Persian belly-dancing ... hardly played even when national days are held in Mombasa. Dr Otoyo explains that “as a commission, we ...

Mombasa, Kenya: The king of Taarab music, Mohamed Khamis Juma Balo ... voice used to sing in Kimvita and Kiamu, two of the dying Swahili dialects, thus helping to preserve and enhance Swahili ...