Tanzania
Moderna to build manufacturing plant in Africa
Moderna announces plans to build a manufacturing plant in Africa, capable of producing up to 500 million doses of mRNA vaccines per year. Also, Germany and Denmark repatriate women and children from the Roj prison camp in northeastern Syria that’s held suspected ISIS members. And Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
To prevent the next Ebola, scientists try to catch new viruses before they break out
With the Ebola outbreak not yet behind us, global health workers are already scrambling to prevent what could be the next big outbreak of an emerging disease caused by a virus that jumped from animals into humans. In Tanzania, an organization is trying a new approach to tracking these new viruses and preventing another pandemic.
Tanzanian Hip-Hop: A Primer
Those beats! One of the biggest musical change that occurs during the period of Tanzanian music covered by “Live From Bongoland” is the introduction of hip-hop. Starting from a small-scale, DIY underground, hip-hop style and music localized, transitioning from English … Read more »
Dansi: A Primer
In our Hip Deep program “Live From Bongoland: The History of Tanzania’s Music Economy,” we trace the evolution of musiki wa dansi, the guitar-based, big-band music that dominated the nation’s clubs and airwaves for well over three decades. Dansi, with … Read more »
Live from Bongoland: The History of Tanzania’s Music Economy
In the ’70s and ’80s, the East African nation of Tanzania was home to one of the continent’s greatest music scenes. But you wouldn’t know from the recorded evidence. Join us for this Hip Deep edition of Afropop Worldwide, as … Read more »
