Opinions garnered from top kwaito musicians;Highlights from the book include an essay dealing with the history of Tsotsitaal and scamtho, an inside look at Mapaputsi’s life and the demons that drove him away from music;Esinako Ndabeni writes about the umbilical cords that bind kwaito together with a history of violence and Sihle Mthembu breaks down the endearing influence of TKZee’s Halloween
Sihle Mthembu is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker born in Mooi River in the Natal Midlands. In 2009 Mthembu enrolled at the Durban University of Technology where he graduated with a B-tech in journalism. He has worked as an art critic, a business journalist and a churner of various types of online banter. His work has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone SA, Vice magazine, Mail & Guardian, City Press and Sunday Independent. For his next trick he is directing a documentary called Calling Down Fire about the life, work and meaning of Busi Mhlongo.
“Born To Kwaito is not only an examination of the history of the music genre; it is also a revisit of the relationship we have with the music, its stars and their own relationship with their art and themselves.” – Thabiso Mahlape, BlackBird Books publisher
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