The rise of post-independence popular music in Africa has unleashed a wide array of genres from many regions. A snapshot might show, from North Africa, Algerian Rai music, and street music like shaabi ...

Before the first note of the 2019 Marrabenta Festival finale in Matola was played a late-summer cyclone hit, sending the tents flying and causing the two huge LED video screens to sway on their ...

Marrabenta is the distinctive national music of Mozambique Originally played with tin-can guitars at gatherings, it combines Portuguese folk with Mozambican dance rhythms Neyma, one of the genre's ...

Is Tanzania's ancient music at risk of dying out?

Maputo — The Mozambican musician Dilon Djindji, considered by many as the greatest practitioner of the popular musical style, known as Marrabenta, has passed away at the age of 97. Djindji, who was ...

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Sky kingdoms & table rockers — Afrimaxx 26:04 Music Mozambique 10/06/2025 In this episode, presenter April Mahase takes you to the kingdom in the sky, Lesotho. Plus: The God of Marrabenta, an ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The burden carried by Mabulu, the six-strong band from Maputo, Mozambique, is heavy. "The band," says manager Roland Hohberg, the most ...

'The goats eat while they are leashed, so you have to keep the grass growing around the goat." These were some of the most relevant words I heard in Maputo - told by Rufus, the keyboard player of ...

The goats eat while they are leashed, so you have to keep the grass growing around the goat. These were some of the most relevant words I heard in Maputo — told by Rufus, the keyboard player of ...