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Would you like to access news/blog content published by sources located in Tanzania?
Code example
If you'd like to make a REST call, then make a following POST request:
Endpoint /api/v1/article/getArticles
Request body
{
"sourceLocationUri": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania",
"resultType": "articles",
"apiKey": "API_KEY"
}
If you'd like instead to do a GET request then call:
/api/v1/article/getArticles?sourceLocationUri=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTanzania&resultType=articles&apiKey=API_KEY
Example of JSON response
Below is an example JSON object that you would receive as the result of the request. You can retrieve also additional properties such as concepts, categories, source details, etc. by specifying additional parameters in the request as described on the documentation page.
{
"articles": {
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"url": "https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/magazines/the-pub-generosity-often-taken-for-granted-in-my-kind-of-pubs-5501848",
"title": "THE PUB: Generosity often taken for granted in my kind of pubs",
"body": "It's good to give; yes, it is. Giving makes you feel helpful to your Maker's people. It uplifts you spiritually.\n\nAnd like Him, you expect appreciation from the person to whom you offer something. 'Shukrani', we say in Swahili. 'Asante'. Thank you.\n\nEven our Maker, the most beneficent, demands that you thank Him, even though we're taught that He's never needy.\n\nIn which case we should never be surprised that the human, with his limitedness in resources as he is, gets hugely disappointed if he provides you with something and you keep mum, treating his gesture as if it were nothing!\n\nYet that's the way some of us treat those who offer us, say, a drink. I'm familiar with such drinkers in some of the drinking outfits I frequent.\n\nLike on this occasion when this guy walks over to our table shared by my ndugu, who doubles as a friend, Esaya, and two amiable ladies.\n\nThe guy, known for his uchawa tendencies, continues to roundly greet us with exaggerated charm. That done, he pulls without being duly welcomed to do so a chair and settles among us.\n\nI politely inform him that this is a family sitting, and after my caution, Esaya asks the intruder if he could do with a beer from him.\n\n\"Oh, sure, how can I decline an offer from a good friend of my former boss, Harry?\" What a way to say thank you!\n\n\"Fine\", says Esaya, \"my bill handler Lightness will take the beer to your table.\"\n\n\"Okay,\" says the intruder as he returns to his table. Yes, that's all he says: 'Okay!'\n\nThen during this other time, you happen to share a table with a fellow (call him Yakobo) who's killing himself slowly with a kasichana.\n\nNo water, no soda...nothing to soften a little his beloved made-in-Bongo gin.\n\nI'm done with my Matori, which I washed down with a glass of Sprite.\n\nThe fellow is a good conversationalist, and, since I know he takes beer too, I tell him, frankly, that I'll offer him one. That's what my wallet can afford.\n\nAs you all know, I'm a budget-conscious Mwasu.\n\nNow the fellow, who has never bought me anything over the many years we've known each other, says,\n\n\"I don't take beer these days, but you can part with Sh2,500, which is the price of my beer brand, and I'll add another Sh2,500 to get my Kasichana.\"\n\nI'm not impressed by his suggestion, and I say to myself, 'Why doesn't the guy simply say, \"Decline my offer politely\" and let me go home without reducing a whole Sh2.5k from my thin wallet?'\n\nThen, on this other day, I'm at this relatively new bar I've grown to like because they play music at low volume.\n\nAt my service is this mhudumu (call her Juliana), who settled nearby. I can see she's clearly bored, so the gentleman in me tells me to offer her a soda.\n\nShe says 'asante' and walks to the counter to collect her drink. As she resettles, I can see she has served herself with a beer! She notices my disapproval and acts fast.\n\n\"Mzee\", she says, \"I decided to take a beer, but don't worry; you may pay just one thousand, and I'll fix the balance, I was actually dying for a beer.\"\n\nIt makes me feel stingy, cheap, instead of feeling appreciated, but that's how things can be with binadamu!",
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"url": "https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/entertainment/when-a-name-change-changes-everything-tanzanian-artistes-who-reinvented-their-identity-5501954",
"title": "When a name change changes everything: Tanzanian artistes who reinvented their identity",
"body": "What's in a name? In music, sometimes everything.\n\nAcross Tanzania's entertainment scene, several artists have made bold moves by rebranding their stage names. For some, it marked a new artistic era. For others, it was about sharpening identity, modernising their image, or creating a stronger connection with fans. Whatever the motivation, these changes show that a name can be a powerful career tool.\n\nConboi Cannabino → Bino\n\nRapper Conboi Cannabino recently reintroduced himself as Bino. While the original name helped build his early identity in the rap scene, the shift to Bino reflects a cleaner, more streamlined brand. The new name is simpler, more memorable, and signals a fresh phase in his artistic journey.\n\nCountry Boy → Country Wizzy\n\nCountry Wizzy also underwent a notable transformation earlier in his career, evolving from Country Boy to the name fans widely recognize today. The change helped strengthen his brand within Tanzania's hip-hop space, giving him a more distinct and lasting identity in a competitive industry.\n\nSaraphina → Phina\n\nSaraphina's transition into Phina remains one of the most successful rebrands in Bongo Flava. By shortening her name, she created a modern, polished identity that matched her rising popularity. The shift played a role in shaping her into one of Tanzania's leading female artists.\n\nAbby Chams → Abigail Chams\n\nAs her career expanded beyond Tanzania, Abby Chams refined her name to Abigail Chams. The adjustment reflects growth, professionalism, and an evolving international presence. It's a subtle but strategic change that aligns with her broader ambitions.\n\nA stage name is more than just a label, its identity, branding, and strategy combined. And in music, the right name change can quietly redefine a career.\n\nAs these artistes continue to evolve, their name changes stand as milestones in their journeys, marking the moments when they chose to redefine not only how they were known, but how they wanted to be remembered.",
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"url": "https://dailynews.co.tz/mohawk-cut-adds-dimension-to-world-cup-marvels-but-its-associated-tiptoe-dance-melts-into-thin-air/",
"title": "Mohawk cut adds dimension to World Cup marvels, but its associated tiptoe dance melts into thin air - Daily News",
"body": "DAR ES SALAAM: MEXICO'S Julián Quiñones scored the very first goal of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. He found the back of the net for the Mexican national team in the 9th minute of their opening match against South Africa on June 11, 2026.\n\nNo name has been used globally to define Quiñones' hairstyle, but to Tanzanians, it is widely known as Kiduku.\n\nFor this year, hairstyle is at the land it originated as in all three countries hosting the World Cup; Canada, Mexico and the USA are the homes to Amerindians.\n\nLike in the four past World Cup finals, this unnamed Amerindian hairstyle has continued to dominate the heads of the football players representing countries in the ongoing World Cup finals in Canada, the US and Mexico.\n\nThe hairstyle found its way into football through the Manchester United legend, David Beckham, when he shaved his head in a Mohawk hairstyle.\n\nEnglish media outlets called it Mohawk, but Tanzanian youth named Kiduku and it was accompanied with a special dance style. Still, however, it is hard to establish a connection between the Kiduku dance style and the Mohawk hairstyle.\n\nThe hairstyle was taken from the Novel and a movie titled \"The Last of the Mohicans\" written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826.\n\nKiduku, as a dance style, has long faded from the limelight today, but it bounced back a few years ago when Diamond Plantumz reintroduced it in Yope Remix by Innossy B.\n\nWhat is so hypnotising in Yope Remix, according to the views of many youthful music fans in Tanzania and Kenya, the majority of them school children, is Diamond's tiptoe dancing style, popularly known as Kiduku.\n\nSince the early 2000s, the Kiduku style has been one of the most popular forms of dance in Tanzania, but only kids could perfectly manage it.\n\n\"It is very difficult to administer it for a fully grown-up person since it requires one to dance on tiptoe, hence only light-weighted kids managed it,\" noted Tanzanian Reggae legend, Innocent Galinoma back in mid-2000s.\n\nKiduku dance won the hearts of the children because they are the only ones who can manage to dance it while standing on tiptoe. \"Only youth aged below 15 years managed to perform it easily,\" he added.\n\nALSO READ: Fans set for World Cup 2026 engagement activities\n\nEven Diamond stood on his tiptoes for a fraction of a second when he danced his remarkable part in Yope Remix. Despite its bizarre look and mastering complications, Kiduku dance has made an immense contribution to promoting Bongo Flava which has now won a global appeal.\n\nKiduku dance accompanied many great Bongo Flava hits released in the mid2000s from Marlaw's Pii Pii to Ali Kiba's \"Cinderella\". Kiduku was already widely danced when Diamond Platnumz released his eponymous hit, \"Moyo Wangu\".\n\nOwing to its physical nature, Kiduku has lost its grip in today's Bongo Flava hits, but it is still danced in Singeli, a suburban music genre played by energetic performers and a hairstyle favoured by artists and football players. Every Tanzanian today knows Kiduku as a dance style for children and the hairstyle of the Amerindian.\n\nTanzania, whose majority of residents are fans of Manchester United, named David Beckham's Mohawk hairstyle Kiduku and it became both dance and hairstyle from the early 2010s to the early 2020s.\n\nAccording to English media outlets, David Beckham's Mohawk style went viral and became a global issue after the then Man United Coach, Sir Alex Ferguson forced Beckham to shave off his Mohawk style in Wembley toilets.\n\nThe Mohawk or Mohican hairstyle is a hairstyle in which, in the most common variety, both sides of the head are shaven, leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair in the centre. Mohawk hairstyles have existed for thousands of years.\n\nThe style re-emerged in the 2000s, with some of the popularly known wearers being Travis vocalist Fran Healy, David Beckham, Elijah Wood and Mario Balotelli.\n\nFor historians and book readers, Kiduku, as both dance and hairstyles, seems to draw close to \"King Solomon's Mines\" (Mashimo ya Mfalme Suleiman in the Swahili version) and The Last of the Mohicans.\n\nKing Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of Sir Henry Curtis, one of the parties.\n\nThe central attraction of the novel is Gagool (Gagula in his Swahili version), who is described as a wizened monkeylike creature.\n\nShe is the wise woman of the Kukuanas who performed a tiptoe dance in her witch-finding exercise to locate men who opposed King Twala and had them executed.\n\nThe Swahili version of King Solomon's Mines is among the most-read books and its chief characters; Allan Quatermain and Gagool remain among the most admired characters to date. It is Kiduku's tiptoe dancing style that makes it similar to what King Solomon's Mines described as Gagool's witch-hunting dance.\n\nStill, besides its controversial nature, Kiduku as dance and hairstyle are clean cultural practices now being cherished by fans of music and arts across the globe.\n\n\"It is baffling how Tanzanians manage to quickly respond to the global trends,\" once echoed Tatu Nane bassist, Ted Mbarak after finding Tanzanian music fans familiar to his thumping style.\n\nHe said by then in the late 1980, when Tanzanian music was still glued to rumba styled dance music, thumping style was not on local music plate.\n\n\"We were playing at a bar in Temeke, when fans shouted ...punguza kibakubaku... and that taught that thumping style3 is called \"Kibakubaku\".\n\nI came to respect Tanzanians for that,\" he called during the band's performance at Rungwe Oceanic in 1987. Unknown to Ted Mbaraka, Chaka Khan's\" Ain't No Body\" brought the first glimpse of thumping style to Tanzania in early 1980s.\n\n\"Ain't Nobody\" was released in 1983 by Warner Bros. and then became a hit single and the band's official bassist was Bobby Watson Legendary American bassist and singer, Larry Graham, is widely recognised as the inventor of the slap bass technique, which he personally calls \"thumpin' and pluckin\".\n\nAs a member of Sly and the Family Stone and later as the frontman of Graham Central Station, his percussive bass playing revolutionised funk, soul and popular music.\n\nThe Origin of \"Thumpin' and Pluckin'\"The Problem: In the 1960s, while playing in a duo with his mother in a San Francisco club, their drummer left. To compensate for the missing rhythm, Graham had to get creative to fill out the bottom end of their sound.\n\nThe Technique: He started striking the strings with his thumb to mimic the thud of a kick drum, and snapping the higher strings with his index or middle finger to imitate a snare drum.\n\nThis accidental innovation completely changed the role of the bass, bringing it from the background rhythm section to the driving lead force of the groove. What Ted Mbarak didn't realise then was that the thumping style was heard in some hits, most notably in DDC Mlimani Park Orchestra's hit \"Conjesta\".\n\nThe band's bassist, Julius Mzeru, is credited with having injected a slap technique in the song. Miguel Suleyman is a Tanzanian ethnomusicologist based in Dar es Salaam.",
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"body": "The anti-poaching fight that the world waged against the ivory trade has phenomenally reduced elephant poaching and revived its population in Tanzania.\n\nThe widely reported case of 2019, Yang Fenglan, the Chinese lady who was convicted of ivory trafficking, is a prime example of the efforts. According to the international wildlife trade treaty, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), pangolins rank among the most trafficked animals in the world.\n\nHundreds of thousands, possibly over one million, have been trafficked over recent decades, driving severe population declines in both Asia and Africa. In Tanzania, these small scaly anteaters are found in MiIombo woodlands, Morogoro, the coastal region, Tabora, Katavi and Rukwa.\n\nTheir population is scattered and their precise number has not been documented. The two species, the ground pangolin and the tree pangolin, are both elusive and nocturnal in nature, which adds to the difficulty in observing the animals' behaviour and daily habits.\n\nIt's the very rarity and mystery that have made it the most sought-after animal by traditional healers who claim its scales possess the power to bring riches, prosperity and good luck charms to whoever carries it.\n\nThese beliefs vary, as in Africa, people think money comes with owning the pangolin scale. In certain traditional medicine markets across Asia, pangolin scales have been mistakenly believed to boost sexual performance or libido, improve fertility and increase manhood strength.\n\nThese myths have persisted even in light of scientific evidence that debunks these beliefs.\n\n\"Pangolin scales are made of keratin, the same material as human fingernails and hair. There is nothing special about their scales. If you think they do, then why can't you just use your nails? It is the same,\" said Makene Ngoroma, a conservationist. He has rescued and translocated more than 17 pangolins across the Mikumi region in Morogoro.\n\nThe highly endangered animal is a victim of dubious practices by fraudulent traditional healers. They have a tendency to ask those who approach them for help to request odd items to be brought before the supposed healing can take place.\n\nSince in Tanzania, pangolins have always been regarded as mysterious and elusive animals, the healers would tell their clients to bring their scales, knowing that it is nearly impossible. Surprisingly, the demand for the scales has grown over the years. People would travel far and wide to locations they believe pangolin habitats are just so they can get the scales back to the charlatan healers.\n\nThis animal is the most traded in the black market. UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, ranks pangolins above elephants on their list of endangered species. No formal censors have been conducted, though Tanzania Research and Conservation Organization has made initial steps to address the dangers that face this vulnerable animal.\n\nThey recently held a workshop in Morogoro, bringing together under one roof all stakeholders concerned with the welfare of Pangolin. These research institutions have started to raise awareness keenly. The neglected animal is finally having the spotlight it direly needs lest it go extinct.\n\nSince 2013, Makene has witnessed the shift in perception among members of the communities he works in Morogoro. When he started rescuing and translocating these animals, locals would always stop him and request that the pangolin predict the upcoming crop harvesting session. \"They believe a pangolin can tell the future harvest, if we will have plenty of maize or rice, so they would always want me to give the animal to them before I release it to the wild,\" he explained. He instinctively started doing community outreach, starting with a pangolin display at the village office. He wanted the villagers to see the elusive animal.\n\nMany of them had never laid their eyes on one. Locals came in hundreds to view the small animal with a tongue that is longer than its body. The anteater gathered crowds and Makene used that opportunity to ask villagers to help protect the animal. From then on, community members would always pay a visit to his office carrying pangolins that they had seen outside the conservation zones. They became pivotal to his rescue initiative.\n\nThe efforts and attention the animals received. Made the communities collaborate with Makene, but some saw that if this small anteater is so valuable, then they should be paid for helping him rescue them. One of the downsides of the translocation drive. 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It was designated under economic sabotage to traffic this rare animal, an unbailable offence that carried heavy punishment when caught.\n\nThe community got to witness a case where a perpetrator was given a lengthy prison sentence. It sobered the people who took lightly the act of grabbing this mammal that curls in a hardball when it feels threatened.\n\n\"No one wanted to have these animals in their possession; they would call me as soon as they saw them and they became reluctant to help the traffickers too,\" he said. The sentence was more severe than that for ivory poaching. Without those stern measures, it is likely that this scaly mammal would have been extinct many years ago.\n\nThe brutality of dubious traditional healers came to light when Makene found a Pangolin that had escaped with its foot torn by a leg tether used to constrain it. 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