"I believe you cannot make a song a photocopy of social ... but traditional Taarab is long dead and there's no-one to keep the old style of music alive." What does get Mombasa going is Indian ...

One is the famous century-old genre synonymous ... was playing their favourite song, according to Mama Latifu. Bhalo, many say, remained the undisputed king of Taarab, and his death marked the ...