“We just wanted to make good music,” says electronic music producer Jakinda. “When we met, neither of us went into the studio thinking ‘we want to make future kwaito’, but after dropping our EP, ...

Township Millionare part three! …and yes this is the last kwaito crusade, at least for the moment, because in the three weeks I’ve taken to focus on South Africa, Jamaica has probably released roughly ...

“Amapiano is winning all over the gaff,” Marcus Nasty tells me. “But where it came from – the people who really made it – they don’t get enough of a shout out from us.” “For the sake of fairness, you ...

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 ...

Township Millionare part three! …and yes this is the last kwaito crusade, at least for the moment, because in the three weeks I’ve taken to focus on South Africa, Jamaica has probably released roughly ...