There have been many instances where African musicians have sampled popular American songs. The sampling gets done so blatantly that you could call some songs 'Thriller in Swahili', 'Amazing Grace in Zulu' and 'Unleash the dragon in Twi'. One popular remix or sampling is that of Banky W's Ebute metta which was also first known as the Nigerian remix of Rihanna's Umbrella. People may complain about the lack of originality of these African musicians but maybe they will care to know that Manu Dibango's Soul Makossa is part of the backbone for Rihanna's worldwide hit - Please don't stop the music. "Mama-se, mama-sa, mama-ma-ko-ssa" is that line that has kept dance floors going since 1972.

Mafikizolo and African music fans have to be wondering - has Nhlanhla Sibongile Mafu Nciza of Mafikizolo fame gone solo? She launched her first solo album last year and is now the face of Sunsilk as she seeks to shed her Mafikizolo image and push her name more into the limelight.

She has even launched a fashion line called NN Vibes or NN Vintage (NN are her initials). She owns it with her husband, music mogul and co-owner of TS Records, Thembinkosi “TK” Nciza. Thembinkosi owns TS Records with popular radio and TV personality, DJ Sbu Leope.

Nhlanhla released her debut solo album titled Inguquko (Change) through TS Records. This was after Mafikizolo abandoned plans for a new album and Nhlanhla quit Kalawa Jazmee to join TS Records. Kalawa believes we'll see more Mafikizolo music in the future as she still remains a member of the Mafikizolo duo but for now Nhlanhla is enjoying a successful solo career.

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The MTN South African Music Awards came off recently in Johannesburg. Below are the winners of the awards.

MTN Record of the Year - DJ Sdunkero - Maputo Song
I was thinking Loyiso's I want you or Freshlyground's Pot belly maybe?

Best Male Solo Artists - Hip Hop Pantsula – Acceptance Speech
He followed up the MTV nomination and music video project with this one.

Best female Solo Artist - Karen Zoid – Postmodern World

Best Duo/Group - Freshlyground – Macheri

I'm in South Africa and just wanted to give everyone an update on the music scene and what's going on lately...

-Kabelo is proving time and time again that he's ruling the kwaito world with his latest SMASHING album "I am King". Lyrics and video coming soon! I'm also hearing rumours of TKZee in the studio engineering a new comeback album. Should be interesting, what with Kabelo so sick with the rhymes, and Zwai coming back from Opera-mode. I havent seen Tokollo in a while though.

The highly anticipated 2008 edition of the Ghana Music Awards came off on Friday night (April 25). It was organized by CharterHouse Productions and sponsored by MTN. It featured performances from many Ghanaian artistes as well as Kenya's Nameless, Nigeria's P-Square and America's Ja Rule (who has been making a lot of trips to African countries recently).

The big winner on the night was the man who undoubtedly had the biggest impact on Ghanaian music in the calendar of 2007 - Kwaw Kese. Let me hear you say, "ABODAM!". Fa wo nsa bo w'adwen mu (use your hand to hit your brain). Kwaw Kese won the coveted artiste of the year award and 4 others.

We've heard all about Papa Wemba, Kanda Bongo Man, Koffi Olomide, Werrason, Kaysha and the rest. Another male musician from the former Zaire that you should get to know is Fally Ipupa. I will call him new-school, he mixes the popular Congolese genres that we love - ndombolo, soukous, etc with others like R&B, soul and pop. He's a great dancer and he has mass appeal with the ladies. That's a recipe for success.

He actually was part of Olomide's group Quartier Latin before he went solo. Check out some of his music videos. His lyrics would follow up on Museke soon