On a Tuesday night in May, I braved Nairobi’s grinding traffic to make my way downtown to a venue called the Igiza Lounge. Perched on the second-floor balcony of the stone-clad Kenya National Theater, ...

Afro Simba is a 10-year old band that explores the music of 9 indigenous coastal communities of Kenya, collectively called the Mijikenda. Now based in the capital Nairobi, the group’s Kombo Chokwe ...

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Since independence, Kenyan musicians have developed unique ways of performing and writing music. It was in the mid-20th century that the genres of Benga, Bango, and Taarab were created by local ...