South African Kwaito veteran L'vovo announced that he's joining the world of reality television to share more unknown details ...

South African musician Zola 7 has gone viral after a photo of him during his days when he was down and out trended. He has ...

When you hear stories in the U.S. about South Africa, they tend to be about relatively few topics: the legacy of apartheid, staggering HIV and AIDS rates, intense crime and poverty. At the end of ...

A south African court has sentenced Kwaito star, Brickz to 15 years in jail for raping his niece. Brickz was arrested in 2013 after the young girl lay a charge accusing him of raping her at his ...

South African musician Zola's work is featured in Tsotsi, this year's Oscar winner for best foreign film. He is the country's leading kwaito artist. The genre is a mixture of South African pop, house ...

Back in the ’90s, not many people in South Africa wanted to associate with hip-hop. Parents who were concerned with rap’s misogyny, crass language, and gang affiliated lyrics had a hard time accepting ...

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Originating in the black townships of South Africa in the mid-1990s, Kwaito music fuses hip-hop, house music, reggae and melodic African rhythms. Although Kwaito has been labeled by many as African ...

When Kwaito burst onto the South African music scene in the early 1990s, the infectious mix of chanted lyrics, slowed-down house beats and bass-heavy African percussion quickly became the soundtrack ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract At the interstices of cultural geography and performance studies, this article continues the author s earlier research and writing on Jamaica ...

Kwaito star, Brickz has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for raping a 16-year-old girl, who is also his niece. Brickz was arrested in 2013 after the young girl lay a charge accusing him of raping ...