Do you know the wordswako? In Setswana, the majority language in Botswana, it means “mixture”. And the term fits perfectly with this musical movement born around thirty years ago, and which is growing all over the place.
First, the wood of the language, because the flow of its artists combines Setswana with words from English or other southern African languages such as Sesotho or Sepedi, to form a Creole familiar to the millennials who propagate it. . On the music side, motswako draws on hip-hop, the international soundtrack of black revolts, but also kwaito…
