The rise, rise and rise of folk music

Friday, September 07, 2007

Botswana music is back, although it never really went away. It has been burning underneath, bursting out onto the surface.

Periodically. It has lied in ruins for some time, but like diamonds it blasted its way out of the belly of rubble to guide national reawakening of the late 1990s.

Judith Sefako, the leader of Ditlholwana Cultural Troupe, has been in the music industry for more than three decades. But she singles out the youth as a source of pride in the revival of culture, especially traditional music.

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