Quite eccentric, at least, to we non-South Africans. It has a peculiar Angolian-Swahili feel too. Their kind of song can be called Afro-Pop. And the genre of music this group make is called Kwaito. The members of Mafikizolo are Theo Kgosinkwe, Nhlanhla Nciza, and Tebogo Madingoane. ![]() To understand this song – Khona, one has to understand the personal lives of the members of the Mafikizolo Band, and Uhuru also. Mama means Mother in almost all languages. But then, Mama is one of those words that its meaning is universal. It has a feel of English too – Rose and Mama. Some Zulus from a province called Mpumalanga are influenced by an inland country called Swaziland, so they tend to mix their vowels. And in some part of the song it did flirt with other local Languages. The song was written and sung in the Zulu Language. ![]() The first phenomenon one has to address in this song is the Language.
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