On 1 December 2025, content creator @marimangcobo lit up a Swedish club when she got an entire crowd moving to Gqom music. The South African woman stood on a small stage at Underbron in Stockholm, ...

A TikTok video shows just how much the rugby fever has many South Africans in a chokehold The 2023 Rugby World Cup has many people excited to see if the Springboks will bring the championship cup home ...

In conservative, authoritarian Almaty, a small techno event aims to create a safe space for activists and the LGBT community It is a rainy spring night in Almaty, and in a small back-alley club a ...

One half of Stiff Pap, the electronic music duo that combine elements of kwaito, gqom, house and hip hop to create a sound that is unique and infectious, AyemaProbllem is lyrical wizard. Formed in ...

Gqom (pronounced Gome) is a blistering variant of South African house which finds its roots in the coastal city of Durban. Like lots of the home-brewed genres of music in South Africa and beyond, a ...

Last month's System Focus column on emerging African and Afrodiasporic networks featured Angel-Ho, an artist bringing ballroom and other U.S. club flavors of black and gay origin into new and ...