Ah-ah, no, not this BongoFlava; not now; it’s just not it, anymore!

People ride on a motorcycle waving a Tanzanian flag during violent protests that marred the election following the disqualification of the two leading opposition candidates in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on October 29, 2025. 

Photo credit: Reuters

The annual Tanzania Music Awards were postponed this month, which caused a few raised eyebrows as almost everything else is “back to normal” with a sort of desperate vigour to prove everything is fine.

Videos of successful people in the music industry started popping up on my social media feeds recently, usually shot from inside a nice car, with the people explaining that everything they had done was kosher and that any push-back was unwarranted.