Taarab in Zanzibar: on the back of the postcard

Three people stand on stone steps, posing with a violin and a guitar; another sits holding a recorder. Two stair railings adorned with musical notes evoke the essence of Zanzibar's Taarab music, like a harmonious postcard captured in time.

Karibu! Welcome to Zanzibar, this small archipelago posed under the equator exactly, in the Indian Ocean, a few tens of kilometers from Dar-Es-Salaam, the economic capital of Tanzania. Turquoise lagons, white sand, giant turtles, grilled fish, musk fragrances in the evening air, flamboyant and coconut … So many shots which the Operators towers love, summoning in their brochures the fantasy of a paradise, sensual and intact insularity to obscure a very unstable reality that sums up …

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