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Hi all.. You can see Sauda’s Sauti za Busara performance on CAPITAL TV (Tanzania) TUESDAY 22 Feb at 19:00. Please don’t miss this!! *** Watch the video for Global Crisis HERE! This is the first video from her album titled Sauti ya Sauda, available at all A Novel Idea bookshops in Tanzania, New Read more
March 5, 2011 in Events, News, Reviews by Ralph
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Africa/Middle East: Reviews V/A – Mapito: Tanzanian Hip-Hop Compilation Tanzanian Bongo Flava seems to be gathering momentum outside the continent and if the numbers of Fly readers airing their views about this music are anything to go by, it’s moving and shaking its way round the world So here’s a 2006 release to get Read more
December 2, 2008 in General, Reviews by Ralph
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By Freddy Macha I am seated in this hall with roughly, fifty people, watching a film. Beautiful, cosy, intimate, Arcola Theatre is based in the Turkish quarter of Stoke Newington, north London. For several weeks the Africa Mine Music and Movement festival has been here. This late Sunday afternoon we are looking at a film Read more
January 22, 2008 in Reviews by Ralph
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008When you look outside of the United States, every year is a great year for hip hop. This global culture spawns music with a deep meaning to the people that participate in it within their own countries. So, in 2007, with thousands of new hip hop albums released worldwide, we select our Read more
January 22, 2008 in Reviews by Ralph
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Artist Name: Fid Q Birth Name: Fareed Kubanda .. Birth Date: August 13th Birth Place: Mwanza. Nationality: Tanzanian Occupation: Recording Artist From when He dropped those infamous 16 bars on a featured track ‘Ukweli na Uwazi’ on the now classic ‘Wachuja Nafaka’ album, Bongo HipHop was born again thru the sharp Lyricism of Fareed Kubanda Read more
January 17, 2008 in Artist Profiles, Reviews by Ralph
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Owen Saunders is a self-taught guitarist, singer–songwriter. He is widely influenced by music from around the world, combining folk, flamenco, jazz and reggae to create his own unique “Aspatria” Flavour. Owen has been writing music since he was 16 years old, coming from a musical family, brought up in a village called Arkleby in North Read more
January 17, 2008 in Events, Reviews by Ralph
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Music Crossroads Music Crossroads International (MCI) is a unique youth music empowerment through music program initiated in 1995 by Jeunesses Musicale International (JMI) and presently encompassing five Southern African countries: Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Since the program began 12 years ago as Music Crossroads Southern Africa, MCI has reached almost 30.000 musicians and Read more
January 8, 2008 in Bongo Flava, Events, Reviews by Ralph
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At last… the winner of our Sugu remix competition has been selected. As the Swahili saying goes: Haraka haraka haina baraka (hurrying has no blessing), and in fact there’s a handful of other proverbs with similar meaning. At the end of last year we asked you to create remixes of one out of two tunes Read more
January 3, 2008 in Reviews by Ralph
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