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Reggae, Bongo Flava Songs Energize Tanzanian Campaign Rallies

Mwamoyo Hamza

   Music has featured prominently in Tanzania's political campaigns this
   year ahead of the Oct. 28 general elections.

   The ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), or Party of the
   Revolution, has trotted out the biggest number of musicians during
   rallies by incumbent President John Pombe Magufuli. CCM opened
   Magufuli's campaign in late August with a stadium-filled special
   concert of 200 songs by more than 100 artists from the Afro-pop music
   genre widely known as Bongo Flava.

   But it is [1]"One Love," the reggae song from the faraway Caribbean
   island nation of Jamaica, that has unexpectedly emerged as a rallying
   song for the opposition party Chadema.The hit by the late reggae icon
   Bob Marley plays at public appearances for Chadema's presidential
   candidate, Tundu Lissu.

References

   1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdB-8eLEW8g

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