Arthur Mafokate
Arthur Mafokate released his debut album Windy Windy in 1994 and became known as the "King of Kwaito" for a run of hits — including the apartheid-baiting "Kaffir" and the SAMA-winning "Oyi Oyi" — that turned kwaito's slowed-down, localized house beats and township-slang lyrics into South Africa's dominant youth sound of the 1990s. He also introduced dance crazes like twalatsa and qopetsa that spread alongside the music.
the sound in question
1997
Oyi OyiArthur Mafokate
we haven’t charted Arthur Mafokate yet
this stretch of the river isn’t mapped. we trace the watershed one artist at a time — and we’re always heading further upstream.