Ethnic Swazi Music

Ethnic Swazi Music

The Swazi are an ethnic group split between South Africa and Swaziland. The Swazis in South Africa became a major part of South African music, though they were not identified as Swazi musicians, but rather as South African musicians; these included Zakes Nkosi, who began in the 1940s as a jazz musician

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