Tanzania music stories and histories
Rob Hooijer ON the 9th November 2023, the archive had a suprise visitor, it was an old friend Robert Hooijer. It was an honour to have been visited by such a great figure in the intellectual property ream in Africa. Robert Hooijer is an expert in the administration of copyrights, music business management and serving…
Eddy Determeyer and John Kitime On September 21, 2023, Kitime Music Archive received a very high profile visitor. Mr Eddy Determeyer. Mr Determeyer is a Dutch music journalist who mainly writes about jazz , improvised music and rhythm & blues , but is also active on the radio. Between 1964 and 1976 Determeyer organized…
Veteran musician Karola Kinasha, this week visited the Kitime Music Archive. Apart from checking out the various articles in the archive, Karola contributed a copy of a VHS tape that has a video of her band’s performance that was held in 1989 during the TOP TEN MUSIC competition, her band was called the Shada Group….
On August 16th 2023, the archive got a group of really high profile visitors. These visitors were highly learned people from different top universities. a two hour long discussion on various aspects of Tanzania music history took place. It was a great day. The delegation included 1. Prof James Ogunde – University of Pretoria 2….