The song Waridi lisilo miba (both lyrics and music)
was composed in 1960 by Seif Selim, a member of the
taarab club Akhwan Safaa and a great artist. It was
performed by Hussein bin Ali and the orchestra of
the Zanzibari Taarab’s National Group (Kikundi cha
Taifa cha Taarab).The Verba Africana series publishes video recording of African verbal arts on
CDRom's, DVD’s and the Internet. This series responds to the increasing need for
new electronic tools that integrate the written and audio-visual materials for
research, teaching and learning of African languages and oral literatures. The video
recording of oral genres, such as poems, songs and tales, is integrated into the
presentation of relevant aspects (language, form, content, performance, literary,
social and historical context). The videos and the accompanying material (short
information and full articles) allow researchers and the interested public to
approach oral literary productions as ‘total event’.NWO, The Netherlands Organisation for
Scientific Researc
