Tanzania music stories and histories
One of the guaranteed activities in any big school events that began in the 50s was ‘jiving’. This was a music and dance event to the tune of the then-popular South African songs. Jiving competitions began at the level of the inter-class competition and went on to interschool competitions. The school jiving clubs went on…
Katika aina ya muziki unapotea ni muziki wa gitaa baridi unaopigwa na mtu mmoja. Gitaa baridi ni gitaa lisilotumia umeme, wengine huliita Galaton au kwa Kiingereza huitwa Acoustic guitar. Chombo hiki husemekana kiliingizwa Afrika kwa mara ya kwanza na mabaharia wa kutoka Ureno katika karne ya 15, Toka wakati huo Waafrika kutoka pande mbalimbali za…
In 2019 a Tanzanian film production company Kijiweni Productions started shooting the film Vuta N’kuvute, a story adapted from a book written by Shafi Adam Shafi. It was a story of the love life between a Zanzibari boy Denge, who wanted the British colonialists to leave Zanzibar, and an Indian girl Yasmin who had escaped from her…
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…