In East Africa, Tanzania stands out as having the highest proportion of Muslims, and a particularly vibrant and creative performance culture including improvisational theater, taarab music, dance music, and Swahili hip hop.
Historical background
In Tanzania, popular culture has always been important for political mobilization. In the late 1950s, the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), the political party fighting for indepen dence, invited Bibi Titi Mohammed…