Bongo Flava
Tanzanian popular music genre / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bongo Flava is a nickname for Tanzanian music.[1] The genre developed in the 1990s, mainly as a derivative of American hip hop and traditional Tanzanian styles such as taarab and dansi, with additional influences from reggae, R&B, and afrobeats, to form a unique style of music.[2] Lyrics are usually in Swahili or English, although increasingly from mid 2000s there has been limited use of words from Sub-Saharan African music traditions due to the influence of Afrobeats and Kwaito with their dynamics usage of West African Pidgin English, Nigerian Pidgin or other Creole language.[3][4]
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Stylistic origins | Tanzanian hip hop • Taarab • Tanzanian music • Dancehall |
Cultural origins | 1990s Dar es Salaam |
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Tanzania • Zanzibar | |
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