Kenyans love Bongo Flava. Our airwaves, TV music shows, local shops and even promotional roadshows play a good amount of Bongo music. And what’s not to love about these Tanzanian songs? The beats are ...

In November 2015, a relatively unknown singer from Mtwara stepped into Tanzania’s mainstream music scene with a song that would become the beginning of a remarkable decade.His name was Rajabu Abdul ...

American hip-hop veteran Mr Cheeks is in Tanzania for the Bongo Flava @30 celebrations, bringing the legacy of New York hip-hop group Lost Boyz to the three-decade celebration of Tanzania’s homegrown ...

A month after he released his latest video Utanipenda, Tanzania’s Diamond Platinumz is attracting a huge debate as to whether he is predicting his end. The emotional song sounds like a premonition ...

IT’S September, the peak of the after-harvest season all over East Africa. It’s festival season, brightly coloured with ...

Tanzanian juggernaut Harmonize is gearing up for global domination. Having rubbed shoulders with huge West African stars such as Nigeria’s Burna Boy (a former NME cover star) and Mr Eazi, the ...

Kutoka kuuza nguo Tandale hadi kutamba kwenye majukwaa ya kimataifa, Diamond Platnumz ameivusha Bongo Flava mipaka na kujenga ...

Tanzanian hip hop emerged in the late 80s, and by the late 90s was being labeled: Bongo Flava. As this new genre went in the direction of pop and incorporated rap and R&B there continued to be ...

Music has featured prominently in Tanzania’s political campaigns this year ahead of the Oct. 28 general elections. The ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), or Party of the Revolution, has trotted ...

Listening to the radio in Tanzania, one would be forgiven for thinking the only music available for public consumption is Bongo Flava, as one track after another plays on loop on almost every ...