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 ...

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 ...

Marrabenta is well known beyond Mozambique’s borders, but for some artists there’s still more to be done before it can gain international stature. “We don’t want our music to reach Mozambique only,” ...

For 40 rhythmic years, Stewart Sukuma has brought the Mozambican style Marrabenta across the globe. But, the god of Marrabenta is also known for embracing social causes and promoting education and ...

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 ...

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

Southern Mozambique hosts one of the continent's best kept secrets, the Marrabenta Festival, an event which celebrated five years this month. Highlight of the Festival is a musical train journey in ...

The Festival of Marrabenta Music This time, from 1 to 3 February, 2013, the famous Congolese composer and singer Sam Mangwana and other Mozambicans musicians Dilon Djindji, Radio Marrabenta, ...

'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 ...