Morojele’s creative career was remarkable. He not only played the jazz changes, but lived and wrote the social and political ...

Studies completed and back in Lesotho, Morojele founded the small Afro-jazz group Black Market and later the trio Afro-Blue. He worked intermittently with other Basotho music groups including ...

The day before, at 8 p.m. in Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, a small country in southern Africa, Kholopo Khuluoe, 42, sat in the driver's seat of his burgundy ­station wagon. Next to him was ...

Rivalry between stars of a unique accordion-based style of music in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho has sparked years of deadly gang warfare that has turned the tiny country into the ...

I composed the show's music... Molikeng: After my TATTOO exhibition in 2014, the academic world started opening up to me. Lesotho is a unique country and an untapped goldmine that we must teach ...

Around him, many other passengers, most Lesotho nationals, bobbed their heads and sang along as the drums and vocals on the track kicked in. Famo, a genre of music that blends traditional Southern ...

Scores of people have died in recent times as a result of violence between warring factions in Lesotho’s Famo music scene. How can the killings be stopped? Show more “People will say nasty ...

You will then be tempted to respond. That’s how the violence starts” – Molefi “Mantsoaki” Tjemolane – Lesotho musician Famo music is a genre whose origins can be traced back to the ...

He added that, historically, some Lesotho radio stations have treated music as advertising content, even charging artists to promote their own releases. "It's essential to build music as an industry.

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JOHANNESBURG - When 16 people were shot dead at a South African tavern, few thought the investigation would lead to the kingdom of Lesotho, where a war between rival music gangs has claimed scores ...