Singeli Movement: Greed for Speed

Singeli, a super-fast electronic music genre, was born at the turn of the century in the Mburahati slum of Dar es Salaam, when, after 40 years of building a socialist economy, Tanzania began implementing capitalist reforms. Singeli’s creators come from the first generation that lives in this new reality. This film looks at how ambition and dreams of stardom bloom in artists who grew up in the clash between the altruism of past socialist times and the competitiveness of capitalist acceleration.