| Richard Matimba's keyboards could give the music an international pop gloss or mimic the mbira or the pennywhistle of South African kwela music. |
| Freshlyground is indigenous African folk mixed with jazz, soul, kwela and dance hall music. |
| African Rhythms traces various musical pathways from marabi through to kwela and mbaqanga and explores the lives of those who made the music. |
| With her vocal range embracing mbaqanga, kwela, township jive and American jazz through ballads to gospel, she will add Afro-international zest to the tribute concerts. |
| He also described current or recent African forms such as juju, kwela and highlife, and showed how some African-American idioms had refashioned the music of their mother country. |
| When the popularity of kwela started to fade, Black Mambazo swapped the pennywhistle for the saxophone. |
