Swahili reigns supreme. These serenades have strong roots finTaarab music from the East African coast. A genre of rhythmic, sung poems with social purposes that mostly touch on 'mipasho', the art ...
The Portuguese became in many ways Africanised, while the people of the Swahili coast retained their culture with remarkably little change over the centuries. Click here to listen to Paul ...
utilizing traditional Swahili techniques to produce a distinct culture. Criterion (iv):The growth and decline of the seaports on the East African coast and interaction between the Bantu, Arabs, ...