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 ...