The music of Tanzania, especially along the coast and on the spice islands, has been influenced from within the African continent and also from the ancient Eastern trade routes. The Arabic and Indonesian cultures have had strong influences on the Zanzibar islands as well as the Swahili coast line of Tanzania.
The Arabic influence is especially seen in the singing and many of the stringed instruments – the cultural intercourse between Tanzania and the Arab world was mutually beneficial, as evidenced
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British Expat Newsletter:
7 June 2006
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In this issue This week: Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia Virtual Snacks Bizarre Searches Quotation and joke This weekIf you’re given to looking at the numbers in the date as they change, you’ll have noticed that yesterday was the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year of this millennium.
666, of course, is the number of the Beast in the Bible’s Book of Revelation. So it’s hardly surprising that there’s been a small flurry of
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