Catalog of an exhibition held at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Section 1. Histories. Tsonga and Shangaan : the making and moulding of identities / Nessa Leibhammer ; My story / Billy Makhubele ; ...

There is still a huge amount of confusion with regards to differentiating who or what is Shangaan or Tsonga. Before we can understand Tsonga history, it is fair to clarify how Shangaans became Tsonga.

I met Wills Glasspiegel over a game of pool at the Bohemian, Richmond’s grungy live music haven. I can’t even remember if we had been there to see a band or not. It was December of 2009 and that ...

You may have noticed over the past few weeks that I have been repping the Africa 2010 theme hard lately. So when Wills Glasspiegel—an Afropop Worldwide producer who also oversaw The Very Best’s Warm ...

Biography Nozinja is the South African artist, producer and DJ who has masterminded a 21st century reboot of indigenous folk tradition, Tsonga disco, kwaito and house to create the Afro-futurist dance ...

Xigugu is a dish from the Tsonga-Shangaan culture. It is pronounced as “she-goo-goo”. It is served as an in-between-meal snack and it’s quite filling. Xigugu is also added to savoury and sweet dishes ...

Nozinja, an African musician who nearly single-handedly pioneered the speedily simmering genre shangaan electro, has released “Nwa Baloyi” off his debut album, Nozinja Lodge, out June 2 via Warp ...

Nozinja is acting as a kind of ambassador for the Shangaan people. Seated at a small desk in a spacious room in Hoxton Hall, where a semi-circle of children and their parents have drawn around him, ...

‘We want to show fans how to dance to our music; the shaking of the waist, moving arms and legs in the right way. It’s truly an art form at its best and they need to share the feeling of doing it with ...

Nozinja is the South African artist, producer and DJ who has masterminded a 21st century reboot of indigenous folk tradition, Tsonga disco, kwaito and house to create the Afro-futurist dance music ...