Tanzanian juggernaut Harmonize is gearing up for global domination. Having rubbed shoulders with huge West African stars such as Nigeria’s Burna Boy (a former NME cover star) and Mr Eazi, the ...

Uganda’s fast-rising star Joshua Baraka is making waves across the region after overtaking Tanzania’s Bongo Flava heavyweight Diamond Platnumz in Spotify monthly listeners, signaling a subtle but ...

GENTLY flavoured with R&B-like syncopation, Joel Lwaga’s Bongo Flava ballad, New Beginning, still commands the Easter Gospel ...

A month after he released his latest video Utanipenda, Tanzania’s Diamond Platinumz is attracting a huge debate as to whether he is predicting his end. The emotional song sounds like a premonition ...

Across generations, across borders, and across genres, African women have not only contributed to the continent’s sound, they have defined it.From the golden era of Afro-jazz and soul to the current ...

Kenyans love Bongo Flava. Our airwaves, TV music shows, local shops and even promotional roadshows play a good amount of Bongo music. And what’s not to love about these Tanzanian songs? The beats are ...

Music has featured prominently in Tanzania’s political campaigns this year ahead of the Oct. 28 general elections. The ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), or Party of the Revolution, has trotted ...

RUMOURS are being circulated that Tanzania's Bongo Flava artist Diamond Platnumz has once again teamed up with Koffi Olomide for another duet after the sky-high success of the Waah project in 2020. It ...

That’s a word you hear a lot when traveling in East Africa. Jambo is “hello” in Swahili, and became part of everyday discourse during a recent two-week trip around northern Tanzania and Zanzibar.

A Tanzanian musical style, known as Bongo Flava, is now becoming popular across Africa. It started in the early 1990s as a Tanzanian version of hip hop and R&B, but back then most artists were not ...