Will Ross reports from Zanzibar ... Taarab is a newly formed group under the control of the Zanzibari government. "We have to send our poems to the government censor board and if the songs are ...

These veterans retained Taarab’s signature tune, melody, and songcraft, as it were since the Sultan of Zanzibar ... There is also Jahazi Modern Taarab, which is “currently the leading Taarab ...

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.