by Didier Dossou | Music, Music Genres
Apparu dans les années 1950 en Afrique du Sud pendant la période de l’apartheid, le mot « kwela » viendrait du mot afrikaner signifiant « grimpez » utilisé par la police sud-africaine qui embarquait dans ses fourgons les jeunes ducktails (voyous), jouant du... by The African Counter | Music, Music Genres, Music Instruments
(Ewondo) traditional musical instrument used for a particular genre of music in the Centre, South and East provinces; the music itself too is called mvet. 
by The African Counter | Music, Music Genres
The definition of the Zouk genre is better given by Brenda Berrian on Music and Culture in the French Caribbean looking at the band at the origin of the genre. She says that the band Kassav’ not only ‘invented the music zouk. Brenda recalls the band saying that...