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  1. Musical figures of enslavement and resistance in Semzaba’s Kiswahili play Tendehogo

    Article • African Studies, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  2. Musical Figuring of Dar es Salaam Urban Marginality in Mbogo’s Swahili Novel Watoto wa Maman’tilie

    Article • Journal of Literary Studies, April 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  3. Sonic figures of heroism and the 1891 Hehe–German war in Mulokozi’s novel Ngome ya Mianzi

    Article • Journal of Postcolonial Writing, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  4. Book Review of Louise Meintjes' Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid.

    Article • Notes, January 2019, Project Muse

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  5. Tanzania: History, Culture, and Geography of Music

    Article • January 2019, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  6. Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World

    Article • January 2019, Bloomsbury Academic

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  7. The Antinomies of Transgressive Gender Acts in Professor Jay’s Rap Music Video “Zali la Mentali” in Tanzania

    Article • Journal of Literary Studies, January 2018, UNISA Press

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  8. Musical Figures and the Archiving of African Identity in Selected Poems by Mulokozi and Kezilahabi

    Article • Critical Arts, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  9. Musical figures and the figuring of Tanzania’s social life in the poems of Kulikoyela K. Kahigi

    Article • Journal of Postcolonial Writing, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  10. Antinomies of African aesthetics and the impulses of aesthetic relativism: reading p’Bitek, Abiodun and Agawu

    Article • African Identities, February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  11. The Archiving of Siti Binti Saad and her Engagement with the Music Industry in Shaaban Robert’s Wasifu wa Siti Binti Saad

    Article • Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  12. A Book Review of Migrating Music

    Article • Journal of World Popular Music, April 2015, Equinox Publishing

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  13. Postcolonial archival fever and the musical archiving of African identity in selected paintings by Elias Jengo

    Article • Journal of African Cultural Studies, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  14. Review of Alex perullo's book Live from Dar es Salaam: Popular Music and Tanzania’s Music Economy.

    Article • African Studies Review, April 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  15. Live from Dar es Salaam: Popular Music and Tanzania’s Music Economy by Alex Perullo

    Article • African Studies Review, January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  16. THE LIMITS AND AMBIVALENCES OF POSTCOLONIAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN MBUNGA'S CHURCH LAW AND BANTU MUSIC

    Article • Yearbook for Traditional Music, January 2013, International Council for Traditional Music

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  17. Music and the Regulatory Regimes of Gender and Sexuality in Tanzania

    Article • Popular Music & Society, July 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  18. Sukuma labor songs from western Tanzania: "we never sleep, we dream of farming". Frank Gunderson. 2010. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 535 pp.

    Article • African Music Journal of the International Library of African Music, January 2011, Rhodes University

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  19. Postcolonial Cosmopolitan Music in Dar es Salaam: Dr. Remmy Ongala and the Traveling Sounds

    Article • African Studies Review, December 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  20. The practice and politics of hybrid soundscapes in Muziki wa Injili in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Article • Journal of African Cultural Studies, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  21. East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization. Mwenda Ntarangwi. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2009. 158 pp. ISBN: 978-0-252-076534 pb; 978-0-252-03457-2 hb.

    Article • January 2010, Rhodes University

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  22. Teaching-learning processes in Muziki wa Injili in Dar es Salaam

    Article • January 2009, Rhodes University

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  23. Review of Edmondson Laura's book Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage.

    Article • African Studies Review, December 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  24. Gender in Church Music: Dynamics of Gendered Space in Muziki wa Injili in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Article • Journal of Popular Music Studies, April 2007, Wiley

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  25. Composition Processes in Popular Church Music in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

    Article • Ethnomusicology Forum, November 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Imani SANGA

  26. Kumpolo : Aesthetic Appreciation and Cultural Appropriation of Bird Sounds in Tanzania

    Article • Folklore, April 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Imani SANGA