Black Warriors are an all-star ensemble of top dance band instrumentalists and singers who play the classic "muziki wa dansi" repertoire from the glorious 1980s.

Until the 1990s, Ramadhan in Dar es Salaam was a month without nightlife and live music. For the musicians, this was a time with no income, and that just as the Idd el-Fitr holidays required extra expenditures. It was also the time of the Ujamaa – there was no music industry and therefore also no extra income from record sales. Nairobi was then the centre of the East African music industry with dependencies of international corporations and a number of smaller record companies.

In 1981 two of the most popular singers of the time – Hassani Bitchuka and Cosmas Chidumule – together with bass player Suleiman Mwanyiro and solo guitarist Joseph Mulenga (then all members of the Mlimani Park Orchestra) boarded a bus for the thirty hour ride to the Kenyan capital. Actually at the time the border with Kenya was closed so that the border crossing took place with detours on foot and by bicycle. CBS had just opened a modern 16-track recording studio and the Tanzanians in just two days and with the participation of some Kenyan studio musicians recorded enough material for two complete LPs. The songs were mainly revamped versions of their current Mlimani Park hits, yet due to the modern recording technology and a different mix they sound consistently more funky than the corresponding Radio Tanzania versions.

Meanwhile both Suleiman Mwanyiro and Joseph Mulenga died, but Hassan Bichuka and Cosmas Chidumule have reformed an able group with the help of some old hands and new blood. The group has been revived to feature as a special project at the "Mambo Moto Moto" Tanzania country special at TFF Rudolstadt 2014, Germany's largest world music festival. The group is joined on stage by Samy ben Redjeb and Pedo Kopp of the Analog Africa Soundsystem, a DJ duo specializing in the revitalization of African dance classics from the 1960s to the 1980s.

The concert takes place at the newly openend stage of the Alliance Française Dar es Salaam, followed by a Caribbean/Africa/Brazil Concert CAB at 9pm, organised by the Alliance Française.