NOUN
- a kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans; includes a whistle among its instruments
How To Use kwela In A Sentence
- By the 1960s, whites too had become avid fans of township jazz, which had sprouted into kwela's instrumental music and mbaqanga, a vocal jazz style.
- When the popularity of kwela started to fade, Black Mambazo swapped the pennywhistle for the saxophone.
- Mbaqanga (referring to a type of cornmeal or porridge but generally understood to mean "homemade") was the name given to the type of popular jive music that emerged in the townships of South Africa in the 1960s as a development of the pennywhistle (or kwela) music of the 1950s. PopMatters
- This name may change - fado, kwela, flamenco, gospel - but it's the same muse being courted. The Times Literary Supplement
- By the 1960s, whites too had become avid fans of township jazz, which had sprouted into kwela's instrumental music and mbaqanga, a vocal jazz style.
- It sounded like someone was throwing coins and dice on the table and, amid a lively conversation, out came the words "here comes kwela kwela". News24 Top Stories
- They were in "police vehicles, some in private cars, some in … big vans called kwela-kwela's and some in smaller ones" driving up the main road. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
- It has 14 tracks that showcase a variety of musical styles like dance, reggae, jazz, mbaqanga, kwela and gospel.
- MPULE KWELAGOBE POSTAGE STAMPS AND OTHER AWARDS AND HONORS Following her historic win of the Miss Universe pageant, Botswana Post launched five com - memorative postage stamps of Mpule. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- All the biggies are here from the colourful group which rose in the 80s to provide a wonderful mish-mash of 50s SA urban styles, contemporary pop, kwela, African jazz, marabi and Sophiatown big band swing. Jammin Reggae Archives