Swahili Taarab

The authentic and genuine traditional Swahili Music, that has its origin in Zanzibar and coastal area of Tanzania.

The lyrics (Mashairi) in Taarab music are not just ordinary lyrics they're poems or more precisely it's poetry containing significant and instructively information.

In fact all Taarab songs follow the formal rules of traditional Swahili poetry, with intricate rhyming schemes.
Furthermore Taarab is one of Swahili people ways of delivering messages to specific individual or individuals with very special metaphor or language codes that most likely and mostly only Swahili people can interpret, so even if you understand Swahili that doesn't mean you comprehend the messages behind, contents and significance of Taarab lyrics.