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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

He looks every bit the traditional Lesotho sheep herder ... Teboho Mochaoa has gone beyond his home country's folk "Famo" music - with its trademark accordion and single drum - to produce an ...