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"Zilipendwa music is music from an era in the 1970s and 1980s...that's dying out...there's only two bands left."

Amil Shivji on his latest documentary film Wahenga about Tanzania’s Zilipendwa music

This video opens with a clip from the documentary Wahenga and then director Amil Shivji talks about: what Zilipendwa music is; the connection between the music and the socialist policies of the 1970s and 1980s; and the state of the film industry in Tanzania.

March 29, 2016 by Editor
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