Kamo Mphela performs at the First Annual South African Amapiano Music Awards in 2021.
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The beats are fresh but the performances are second rate and lacking star quality.
South African producer and DJ Black Coffee plays in New York in 2018.
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Despite controversy at home and a decade late, the Grammy win proves how much the world loves South Africa’s biggest house music star.
Angolan dance troupe Fenómenos do Semba.
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During the coronavirus pandemic the Jerusalema dance challenge enacted a way for communities to connect - repetitive enough to be picked up and varied enough to tease.