Radio Tanzania Music Archives

The Radio Tanzania archives, now stored in two jam-packed rooms of the Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation, hold a wealth of history on their shelves. The 100,000 hours of recordings are an “audio-musical history of Tanzania’s struggle for independence and its birth as a modern African nation”, claims the Tanzania Heritage Project.

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Contained in galleries: Radio Tanzania Project: Tanzania, 2012

The Radio Tanzania archives, now stored in two jam-packed rooms of the Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation, hold a wealth of history on their shelves. The 100,000 hours of recordings are an “audio-musical history of Tanzania’s struggle for independence and its birth as a modern African nation”, claims the Tanzania Heritage Project.