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Update #29: A note to our international backers
Your rewards are on their way! We had a delay with shipping these rewards internationally because of the additional customs paperwork that has to be filled out. Don't worry, you'll get them soon!
Thanks for your patience.
Pamoja kwa muziki,
The Radio Tanzania Team
Update #28: Track Listing Correction- Apologies!
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Posted on April 18
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Update #27: Interview with Vijana FM and Mobile Money Contributions
Today Rebecca’s interview with Vijana FM went live on their website. Vijana FM is a web-based platform meant to encourage dialogue, debate, and education among the youth of East Africa. Their moto is “Soma. Sikiliza. Angalia. Changia.” (in English, Read. Listen. Watch. Contribute.).
Vijana is the Kiswahili word for “youth,” and on the Vijana FM platform, young people can come together to share, exchange, and develop ideas for sustainable development in East Africa. They concentrate especially on sustainable social entrepreneurship and believe that “informal education” (the process of acquiring knowledge through human experience, collaboration, and interaction) is as powerful as institutionalized, formal learning that occurs in more structured environments.
To read the interview, go here. There are also some beautiful photos by Jonathan Kalan included in the interview.
For those of you in East Africa, please help us spread the word about the new way to contribute to the Tanzania Heritage Project: mobile banking! You can "text" us donations.
Our numbers are: Tigo Pesa – 0655 542 939 and Airtel – 0687 542 939. Every bit counts– asenteni!
Update #26: "Dunia ni Matembezi" and more info about your rewards
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Posted on April 13
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Update #25: What if you hadn't heard the music you love most in decades?
Yesterday a video of an old man in a nursing home began to go viral on YouTube and I thought it was worth sharing with you. Through your support of our project have shown that you understand the power of music to heal, to renew, and to bring joy... and what a tragedy it would be for any culture to lose the music that helped shape it.
Music inspires. True to the original Latin meaning, it breathes life into us... sometimes even life that appears to have faded.
So watch the video and see what happens when we get cut off from the music we love... and the magic that occurs when it is restored to us!
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THREE DIGITAL MP3 FILES of songs from the archives + your name listed in the "Thank you for Helping Digitize the Radio Tanzania Archives" section of our website with a link of your choice-- your blog or website, a cause you support, your twitter feed, your business, etc.
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The RADIO TANZANIA SAMPLER CD with not five, not ten, but TWENTY ONE hand-picked songs from the archives. This mix will be a preview of what the "Best of Radio Tanzania" CD will be like once we've digitized more music, remastered the tracks, etc. These songs are the jam and most of them have not been available to the public for nearly 50 years. CD will come with a handwritten 'thank you' note. Plus rewards above.
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ADVANCE DOWNLOAD of the "Best of Radio Tanzania" compilation CD with PDF version of liner notes and photos (when it's ready), and you still get the sampler CD now! + rewards above.
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HARD COPY of the "Best of Radio Tanzania" compilation CD with liner notes, and a glossy 5x7 print of a photograph from the archives with lyrics from one of the songs (and its translation) on the back + all of the above.
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RADIO TANZANIA HOME MOVIES DVD (the rough-cut of the documentary film that we'll put together while we're working on the archives). This will be an inside look into the digitization process, Tanzanian music, and Swahili culture as we see it on the ground. It will include interviews and performances with musicians we meet along the way. At this level, you'll also get your name in the liner notes of the CD, an 8x10 glossy print of a photograph from the archives with the lyrics of a song from the archives and its English translation + all of the above.
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RADIO TANZANIA T-SHIRT (limited edition) with our awesome logo on it + all of the above.
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A Skype interview with myself, AND Totoo ze Bingwa or Benjamin wa Mambo Jambo (both popular Tanzanian musicians), a Skype tour of the Radio Tanzania archives, an ASSOCIATE PRODUCER credit for the "Best of" CD, a professional photo book of prints and lyrics from the archives, a hand-carved Tanzanian craft or necklace + all of the above.
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UNLIMITED free downloads of digitized songs from the archives (once we have set up a website), EXECUTIVE PRODUCER credit for the "Best of Radio Tanzania" CD, the photo book of photos and lyrics, the Skype tour and interviews, a hand-selected Tanzanian "kanga" cloth with a Swahili proverb on it, and a Tanzanian carved wood handicraft + all of the above.
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Come to Tanzania and participate in the digitization yourself. Get a tour of the Radio Tanzania archives, attend 2 live music shows and explore the city with the Radio Tanzania team, meet the musicians whose work is contained in the archives, see some music digitized and create your own mixed CDs with your favorite tracks, and take a swim in the Indian Ocean. PLUS all of the above. (airfare not included).
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I first traveled to Tanzania as a volunteer in 2007. As an undergraduate, I wrote a memoir called "Lay Down Your Heart" about my time in East Africa. After graduating from the University of Georgia with degrees in Anthropology and English, I returned to Tanzania as a Rotary Ambassarial Scholar to get my Master's degree in International Development at the University of Dar es Salaam and to work as a Kiva Fellow in microfinance at Tujijenge Tanzania, Ltd. My time in Tanzania was cut short in an unfortunate traffic accident, but for the past two years during my recovery I have worked to make this project a reality, collaborating with Tanzanian, Irish, and American development, music, and film experts who will be assisting me in the digitization of the archives. This is by no means my project alone. In the spirit of the Bantu humanist ethic "Ubuntu," I recognize "I am because we are." Radio Tanzania is a team of people working together to make sure these archives are not forgotten!
