Sauti za Busara: East Africa’s premier musical festival returns in 2017
After cancelling its 2016 edition, East Africa's premier musical festival returns in 2017. Amira Ali spoke with festival director Yusuf ...
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Saigon (Deplowmatz) is back with new video Rudia
If you lived in Tanzania in the 90s, as a hip hop head the name Deplowmatz (DPT) was without a ...
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Swaghili, Tanzania special and a beats excursion: African hip hop radio May & June 2013
Pic: the fast changing city scape of Dar es Salaam, where the city is turning into a forest of high ...
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Africa Represents at seventh International Hip Hop Festival
Text: The Black Noise Tendency Pics: Seth Markle From March 29th-31st 2012, artists, activists, educators, students and academics converged on ...
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Watengwa 2 France: Tanzanian hip hop crew crowd funding their France tour
East Africa Rise Up (EARU), a hip hop based initiative in Arusha, Tanzania have started a Kickstarter crowd funding page ...
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Student meets teacher: Easy Muchwa ft Dogo Janja – Shikamoo Mwalimu
Hip hop has been around long enough for several generations to be active as recording and performing artists - seventies ...
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African Hip Hop Radio: Fully Loaded with Nneka & Sugu
After a hiatus of over one year (not counting the occasional mixtape and guest shows from Nairobi), African Hip Hop ...
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Swahili version of 'Now that we found love' – Heavy D rest in peace
One of the original heavy weights of hip hop passed away yesterday. Heavy D (44) died in Los Angeles of ...
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X Plastaz launching new video ‘Africa’ featuring Fid Q & Bamba Nazar
Tanzanian group X Plastaz just launched their new video and single 'Africa'. The highly anticipated song features the vocals of ...
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