Music
Sauti za Busara: the Zanzibar festival that fills an old fort with African music every February
Sauti za Busara, meaning "sounds of wisdom" in Swahili, is an annual festival of African music held in…
Zanzibar
Music
Les Têtes Brûlées: the painted Yaoundé band that took bikutsi to the world
Les Têtes Brûlées, founded in Yaoundé by Jean-Marie Ahanda, popularised a pop version of bikutsi in the 1980s.…
Arts + Culture
Still singing on stage past 100: Bi Kidude, the queen of Zanzibar’s taarab
Bi Kidude, born Fatuma binti Baraka in Zanzibar around 1910, was called the queen of taarab and unyago…