During the dry season near Morogoro in Tanzania miners are digging the ground to reach the gem rich gravel layer. It take them typically 2 or 3 days to dig through the overburden and reach the gem gravels which are then washed in a pond. More details on www.fieldgemology.or g
When the miners reach the gem rich gravel layer they start to collect it and here to wash it directly in the mine pit as they created in the deep of the pit a small washing pond. Ingenious...
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Mama Mdogo by the great Mbaraka Mwinshehe & Morogoro Jazz Band. Pictures downloaded from the net. Some of the pictures are of Mwinshehe and east African music but others are unrelated African music albums just because I like african album art. Enjoy.
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Tanzania
he is praising the development of his band morogoro jazz and the styles they played every year..in 1968 they played likembe, 1969 tikisa. 1970 mahoka. 1971 mizuka. 1972 sululu
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Dar es salaam to Morogoro
The name Bongo Flava comes from the Swahili word for brains (connoting smarts or intelligence), which is ubongo. Bongo is the slang nickname for Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania, and the former capital. The streets of Dar es Salaam is where Tanzanian hip-hop and R&B was born, thus the name of the genre literally translates to the flava from Dar es Salaam.