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mbaqanga

Mahlathini. New Orleans, 1991. (c) Banning Eyre

South African mbaqanga is Africa's hardest-driving pop sound with frisky riffing and a knockout downbeat to rival Cajun zydeco or Brazilian foro. Read more on mbaqanga...

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