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 ...

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'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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared on 10and5.com. It was early on in the day when it first became apparent that we weren’t in control of the interview. In fact, it was sometime between her loudly ...

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 ...

Reviewed by Diane Thram in African music (Grahamstown, South Africa) 10 (3) 2017, pages 164-166 (ML5.A25 AFA). AFA copy Purchased from the Warren M. Robbins Library Endowment. "In mid-1990s South ...

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 ...