Wikipedia
Bango may refer to:
- Bango (cannabis), a type of marijuana
- Pangu—"Bango" is the Korean pronunciation of Pengu, the creator in Chinese myth.
- Bango plc, a supplier of mobile web payment and analytic products
- Bango (music) is a music style popular at the East African Coast that fuses traditional Portuguese, Arabic influenced taarab music and local coastal bantu languages
- Bongo drum, an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed drums
- Bango (mascot), the mascot of the National Basketball Association's Milwaukee Bucks
- Bango, a musical group best known for their 2006 cover of the song " Tarzan Boy"
Bango is a music style created and made popular at the East African Coast by Joseph Ngala. It fuses traditional Portuguese music genres, Arabic influenced taarab music, jazz and music genres of local coastal Bantu languages. It resembles easy listening music styles of Latin america such as bossa nova and music styles of many Indian Ocean Islands such as Seychelles and Mauritius. Joseph Ngala (also known by stage name "Mzee Ngala") is a renowned Kenyan Bango musician who comes from Freretown, Mombasa, and also the founder of the genre. He performed in the past with famous groups such as the Hodi Boys and was also founder and band leader of the 60s and 70s group Bahari Boys. In the band, he was their main composer and inspiration. In fact, Mzee Ngala's song "Bango" is the originator of the name Bango. The resilience of the name, Bango, is testament to the genre created by Mzee Ngala.
Other notable Bango artists who have copied his style include Uyoga Band (formerly " Them Mushrooms"), Teusi 5, Bango Sounds etc. Mzee Ngala still actively performs his music during events like the bi-annual Coast Night held in Nairobi and also in events all over the Coast province like Jamboree Club. Many, though not all, Bango songs are written and performed for and during weddings. Such hits include "Jimmy na Anne" (written for Ngala's wedding to Anna), "Billy na Susan", "Kombe na Dogo" and the "David na Vera".
Usage examples of "bango".
You, sir, in your country vicarage, are no less innocent, even though on sultry afternoons you have covered your head with the Financial Supplement of The Times in mistake for the Literary Supplement, and have thus had thrust upon you the stirring news that Bango-Bangos were going up.
But there must be something more in it than this, or why are Bango-Bangos still going up?
And I am sorry to say that even Roger St Verax, a Director of the Bango-Bango Development Company, is not very clear about it all.
It was as a Director of the Bango-Bango Exploration Company that he took up his life in the City.
As its name implies, the Company was originally formed to explore Bango-Bango, an impenetrable district in North Australia.
The Bango-Bango Development Company was immediately formed to take over the Bango-Bango Mining Company (together with its prospector, if alive, its plant, shafts and other property, not forgetting the piece of gold) and more particularly to develop the vegetable resources of the district with the view of planting rubber trees in the immediate future.
And even if you were certain that a rubber-tree couldn’t possibly grow in the Bango-Bango district (as in confidence it couldn’t), still it was worth taking shares purely as an investment, seeing how rapidly rubber was going up.
I'm lying there on the iron bed thinking what a zero I have become, what a cipher, what a nullity, when bango!
Sometimes I'm not thinking about a woman at all, but suddenly I notice a woman looking at me and then, bango!