Earlier this year, Voice of Maasai received an unexpected licensing inquiry. A television production was interested in using one of our songs. It was the kind of email that makes you stop what you're doing.

What began with a single recording in a small studio in Arusha slowly became a catalog. More than a decade later, those songs can still travel, be heard, shared and discovered. A reflection on one simple measure of creative work: did something exist afterward that didn’t exist before?