DAR ES SALAAM: THE National Arts Council (BASATA) has commended the Tanzania Taarab Music Association for its dedicated ...

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 ...

Charlene Ruto attended an event in Kilifi where she was captured dancing her heart out with the university students, leaving ...

09 /8/15. PHOTO: TITUS MUNALA For someone looking for truly cool and serenading music, Kisumu Boys High School was the place to be last weekend as students performed Coastal taarab music with ...

When Zanzibar-born Taarab icon Fatuma binti Baraka alias Bi Kidude passed on at a golden age of 102 in April 2013, all eyes were on the genre’s rising stars, emblems of the music’s future.