(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 ...

Predominantly music meant for housewives going about their daily chores while enjoying relatable content about co-wives, Taarab music has influenced contemporary artistes who have churned hits ...

Maryam Mohammed Hamdani says she is the first woman to play taarab, a traditional style of music native to East Africa, in public in Zanzibar. She says she wasn't able to learn as a child due to ...

Mombasa, Kenya: The king of Taarab music, Mohamed Khamis Juma Balo, is dead. He died in his house in Mombasa’s Old Town on Saturday night after ailing for long. Bhalo who practised Taarab for ...

She happily danced to the trendy Dance Ya Kudonjo song as she copied what the pupils were doing on the dancefloor. In a different report, the president's daughter recently shut down rumours that ...