East Africa’s biggest festival is family friendly and often sees young and old revelling to the sounds of Africa and the diaspora’s best musical offerings.
The Sauti za Busara Festival, held annually in Zanzibar, is regarded as east Africa’s biggest festival. But funding challenges meant that the festival had to skip a leg in 2016 in order to restructure and regroup. In 2017, festival director Yusuf Mahmoud brought Sauti za Busara back with a whole lot more fire power. I spoke to Mahmoud about Sauti’s future for Music In Africa. Follow this link below to read the full feature:
Resurrecting East Africa’s Biggest Festival by Setumo-Thebe Mohlomi
Setumo-Thebe Mohlomi 