Dive into the essence of Soweto's Meadowlands with this captivating look back at Kasi football and Gwijo music in 2016, a time when the grassroots football scene was not just a sport, but a pivotal ...

Crowds of mourners gather outside Nelson Mandela's former house in Vilakazi Street, Soweto, to dance and sing songs in celebration of his life. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). Kate Middleton Steps ...

Dressed in vibrant costumes, the Soweto Gospel Choir blends the rich sounds of traditional African music with dance and a variety of musical genres — rock and hip-hop, and American gospel and R&B — ...

Few ensembles embody the intertwining of artistry and political memory as fully as the Soweto Gospel Choir. Emerging in a country still reckoning with the psychological scars of apartheid, the group ...

Soweto is an acronym for Southwestern Townships, a vast containment community originally created to keep the indigenous people of South Africa segregated from the country's white colonizers. Since the ...

A question about apartheid in South Africa 30 years ago: "Do you take what your father has taken or do you stand up for what you think it right?" The speaker is Thandi Modise and he is recalling the ...

*More from South Africa as I visited Soweto about 25 minutes by road from Johannesburg. I remembered Nigerian musician, Sonny Okosuns‘ liberation songs such as “Fire In Soweto Song” and “Papa’s Land.” ...

In December, in the thick of tributes that poured in following the death of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Soweto Gospel Choir chose to eulogize their leader with an abrupt, but no less affecting, ...

For many, their first experience with Nigerian afrobeats singer Victony, born Anthony Ebuka Victor, came with the growing hit song “Soweto.” As of today, that record has three versions: the original, ...

Singer Victony whose real name is Anthony Ebuka Victor has revealed that his hit song ‘Soweto’ was a game-changer for his career. In an interview with Sound City, he stated: “Soweto changed my life.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Shimmy Jiyane and Latroit about their new project to reimagine classic House tracks to tell the story of the roots of the genre – translated and sung by the choir in Zulu.