John no longer tends to livestock full-time. At 20, he plays flute in weekly concerts at the Dhow Countries Music Academy, where he began studying in 2011. He's part of a revival of taarab, a ...

(CNN)-- Mohammed Issa Matona is a man on a mission. A master of taarab music, Matona is also the co-founder of Zanzibar's Dhow Countries Music Academy, a school dedicated to preserving the island ...

Will Ross reports from Zanzibar and Mombasa on how traditional Taarab music is responding to the challenge of new influences. In the 1930's the great Taarab singer, Siti Bint Saad, was a prized ...

Nairobi — Although taarab music rarely features on entertainment menus of leisure spots outside the coastal strip, the growth of the music genre, whose roots are said to go back to over a ...

When Zanzibar-born Taarab icon Fatuma binti Baraka alias Bi Kidude passed on at a golden age of 102 in April 2013, all eyes were on the genre’s rising stars, emblems of the music’s future.

09 /8/15. PHOTO: TITUS MUNALA For someone looking for truly cool and serenading music, Kisumu Boys High School was the place to be last weekend as students performed Coastal taarab music with ...

There she started working with musicians and became famous as a taarab singer. She practiced music until old age and died in 1950. What is Siti binti Saad renowned for? Siti binti Saad was a star ...

At 20, he plays flute in weekly concerts at the Dhow Countries Music Academy, where he began studying in 2011. He's part of a revival of taarab, a traditional form of music that dates to the 1880s.