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A: Hip-hop / Rap / Pop / Reggae
B: R&B // Serene Music
C: Traditional Music
D: Gospel // Choir Songs
E: Comedies / Soaps / Poems
F: Miscellaneous
A: Hip-hop / Rap / Pop / Reggae
- Artist: A.Y. [on the left: from Tanzania] feat. Prezzo [on the right: from Kenya)]
Title: "Nipe nikupe" [= Give me sth, so that I may give you sth.]
Style: East African hip-hop, rap
Website: www.ay.co.tz
Our rating: 5
- Artists: Habib & Richie [from Kenya]
Title: "Bata" [= The Duck]
Style: African hip-hop
Our rating: 5¤
- Artiste: JayDee [from Tanzania]
Title: "Siku hazigandi." [equivalent to: "Times will always keep changing."]
Style: sort of South African
Our rating: 4¤
- Artistes: TMK Wanaume Family [from Tanzania]
Title: "Dar mpaka Moro" [= from Dar to Moro]
Style: hip hop
Our rating: 5¤
- Artist: Rama K [from Burundi]: feat. Mr Blu (with plaited hair) [from Tanzania]
Title: "Tulia nikusimulie" [= Relax so that I may narrate it to you.]
Style: poetic East African rhythm
Our rating: 3¤
- Artist: (Jose) Chameleone [from Uganda] feat. Bushoke [from Tanzania]
Title: "Mama Rhoda"
Style: East African hip hop // with some phrases in Luganda
Our rating: 4¤
- Artist: (Jose) Chameleone [from Uganda]
Title: "Mama mia"
Style: Some kind of African reggae
Our rating: 5¤
- Artists: Deux Vultures [from Kenya]
Title: "Adhiambo" [a woman's name]
Style: Kenyan dancehall music
Our rating: 5¤
- Artist: Jua Cali [from Kenya]
Title: "bidii yangu" [= my industriousness]
Style: rap
Our rating: 4¤
- Artist: Jimwat [from Kenya]
Title: "under 18"
Style: rap, hip-hop
Our rating: 4¤
- Artists: Dogo A [from Burundi]
Title: "Manjonjo" [a name]
Style: East African rap, hip-hop
Our rating: 4¤
- Artists: Jaguar [from Kenya]
Title: "Unaniwasha!" [= You are tickling me!]
Style: African hip-hop
Our rating: 3¤
- Artiste: (Lady) Jay Dee [from Tanzania]
Title: "Distance"
Style: East African // She is singing in Swahili and 6 other languages
Our rating: 5¤
- Artist: (Mr) Nonini [from Kenya]
Title: "Manzi wa Nairobi" [= A chick in Nairobi.]
Style: rap, hip-hop
Our rating: 3¤
- Artiste: Tout Star Mouzika [from Congo]
Title: "Mapenzi" [= Love]
Style: Hip hop
Our rating: 3¤
- Artist: (Mr) Vumbi Dekula feat. Kaumba [from Congo: lives in Tanzania]
Title: "Makumbele" [a name]
Style: Tanzanian dancehall music
Our rating: 2¤
- Artist: Lolilo [from Burundi]
Title: "leo" [= today]
Style: East African dancehall music
Our rating: 4¤
- Artists: Historians feat. Collo [from Kenya]
Title: "Ana bidii." [= She is hard-working.]
Style: some kind of reggae, hip-hop
Our rating: 3¤
- Artist: (Mr) Darda King [from Tanzania]
Title: "Mdundiko" [a kind of dance]
Style: traditional dancehall music
Our rating: 3¤
Website: www.mfalme.com
- Artists: Longombas [Congolese twins based in Kenya]
Title: "Chukua!" [= Take it/them!]
Style: Central African dancehall music
Our rating: 3¤
- Artist: (Ms) Amani feat. Nyashinski (the guy) [from Kenya]
Title: "bad boy" [lyrics in Swahili]
Style: hip-hop, rap
Our rating: 5¤
- Artist: X Plastaz [from Tanzania]
Title: "Nini dhambi kwa mwenye dhiki." [= What is a sin for the needy one.]
Style: rap, hip-hop
Our rating: 3¤
Website: www.xplastaz.com
Our rating: 4¤
- Artiste: Choku [from Kenya]
Title: "tam tam" [= (it is) very sweet]
Style: East African dancehall music
Our rating: 3¤
- Artist: Lolilo [from Burundi]
Title: "majonzi" [= sorrow]
Style: East African dancehall music
Our rating: 2¤
- Artiste: DJ Gaytt [from Congo]
Title: "Cheka nicheke." [= Laugh, so that I may laugh too!]
Style: Pop
Our rating: 3¤
- Artists: Msondo Ngoma [from Tanzania]
Title: "Mtanikumbuka" [= You will remember me.]
Style: Tanzanian rumba
Our rating: 2¤
- Artiste: Chege [from Tanzania]
Title: "Dude la kimataifa" [= an international monster]
Style: reggae
Our rating: 4¤
A: Hip-hop / Rap / Pop / Reggae
B: R&B // Serene Music
C: Traditional Music
D: Gospel // Choir Songs
E: Comedies / Soaps / Poems
F: Miscellaneous
B: R&B // Serene Music
- Artiste: Matonya [from Tanzania]
Title: "Siamini." [= I don't believe it.]
Style: R&B (a love ballad)
Our rating: 5¤
- Artiste: (Ms) Saida Karoli [from Tanzania]
Title: "Mimi nakupenda." [= I love you.]
Style: African R&B
Our rating: 3¤
- Artist: Khadja Nin [from Burundi]
Title: "Wale watu" [= Those people.]
Style: R&B
Our rating: 3¤
- Artiste: Nyota Ndogo [from Kenya]
Title: "watu na viatu" [= people and shoes]
Style: blues
Our rating: 4¤
- Artiste: Nuru [from Tanzania]
Title: "walimwengu" [= worldly people]
Style: R&B
Our rating: 3¤
- Artist: Amani [from Kenya]
Title: "tamani" [= desire]
Style: R&B
Our rating: 3¤
- Artist: Mr Blu [from Tanzania]
Title: "Nakupenda!" [= I love you!]
Style: brisk blues
Our rating: 3¤
- Artist: Flo Shabani [from Congo]
Title: "Mutoto muzuri" [= A good child.]
Style: whispering guitar
Our rating: 2¤
A: Hip-hop / Rap / Pop / Reggae
B: R&B // Serene Music
C: Traditional Music
D: Gospel // Choir Songs
E: Comedies / Soaps / Poems
F: Miscellaneous
C: Traditional Music
- Artists: Safari Sound Band [from Kenya]
Title: "Chakacha" [type of music]
Style: traditional coastal
Our rating: 3¤
- Artists: MS Ngoma Troupe [from Tanzania]
Title: "Sindimba" [type of music]
Style: traditional coastal
Our rating: 3¤
- Originator: (Ms) Saida Karoli 2 [from Tanzania]
Style: traditional/modern [The singing is not in Swahili!]
Our rating: 4¤
- Artistes: Various [from Kenya]
Style: traditional
Our rating:¤ ¤ ¤
- Artists: Bernard and Alfred [from Burundi]
Style: traditional // The singing is not in Swahili!
Our rating: 2¤
A: Hip-hop / Rap / Pop / Reggae
B: R&B // Serene Music
C: Traditional Music
D: Gospel // Choir Songs
E: Comedies / Soaps / Poems
F: Miscellaneous
D: Gospel // Choir Songs
- Singers: Main Street Singers [from the USA]
Title: "Mungu ni Pendo" [= God is love]
Style: gospel
Our rating: 5¤
- Singer: Jean Paul Samputu [from Rwanda]
Title: "Karibu Mungu." [= Welcome God.]
Style: gospel
Our rating: 5¤
- Choir [from Tanzania]
Title: "Yesu milele" [= Jesus forever.]
Style: gospel
Our rating: 3¤
- Artist: Shabani Yabin [from Congo]
Title: "Mungu" [= God]
Style: gospel
Our rating: 3¤
- Artists: Unspecified Choir [from Tanzania]
Title: "Damu imebubujika" [= There's a fountain.]
Style: gospel
Our rating: 4¤
- Singer: Mwasi [from Kenya]
Title: "Nisamehe!" [Forgive me!]
Style: hymn [with subtitles]
Our rating: 3¤
- Singers: Shukurani Gospel Singers [from Kenya]
Title: "Hakuna Mungu kama wewe." [= There's no God like you.]
Style: gospel
Our rating: 3¤
- Artist: Betty Namaganda [from Uganda]
Title: "kitu gani" [= what]
Style: "dancehall" gospel
Our rating: 3¤
- Singers: Fägt-ory Choir Project in Dürnten [Switzerland]
Title: "Baba Yetu" [= Our Father (meaning: The Lord's Prayer)]
Style: gospel
Our rating: 2¤
- Singers: ACSI Honors Choir in Budapest [Hungary]
Title: "Wana Baraka" [= They have been blessed.]
Style: gospel
Our rating: 3¤
- Singer: Bahati Bukuku [from Tanzania]
Style: gospel // She is not singing in Swahili!
Our rating: 2¤
- Singers: Hope Gospel Singers [in Paris]
Title: "O sifuni Mungu!" [= Praise the Lord!]
Style: gospel
Our rating: 2¤
A: Hip-hop / Rap / Pop / Reggae
B: R&B // Serene Music
C: Traditional Music
D: Gospel // Choir Songs
E: Comedies / Soaps / Poems
F: Miscellaneous
E: Comedies/Soaps and Poems
- Comedy/Soap [from Tanzania]
Our rating: 3¤
- Comedy/Soap: "vitimbi 1" [from Kenya]
Our rating: 3¤
- Comedy/Soap: "vitimbi 2" [from Kenya]
Our rating: 3¤
- Poem [from Kenya]
Our rating: 3¤
A: Hip-hop / Rap / Pop / Reggae
B: R&B // Serene Music
C: Traditional Music
D: Gospel // Choir Songs
E: Comedies / Soaps / Poems
F: Miscellaneous
F: Miscellaneous
- Tanzanian National Anthem
Our rating: 3¤
- Kenyan National Anthem
Our rating: 3¤
- Independence day speech by Patrice Lumumba
[the 1st Congolese Prime Minister]
Our rating: 4¤
- Online Swahili
Title: Swahili Lesson 1
- Online Swahili
Title: Swahili Lesson 2
- Online Swahili
Title: Swahili Lesson 3
- Online Swahili
Title: Swahili Lesson 4
- Online Swahili
Title: Swahili Lesson 5
Our rating:¤ ¤