This boubou occurs in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains and in northern Malawi and extreme eastern Zambia. It lives in montane forest, edges, and clearings.
It is 18–20 cm long and entirely black with a bluish cast.
It usually keeps to undergrowth and thickets, where it takes invertebrates such as caterpillars, ants, grasshoppers, and snails. It forages alone or in pairs and may move into the canopy to call; duetting calls are reported.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.