What was termed as the saving grace for the Kenyan music industry needs a saving grace itself. “Gengetone died a silent death,” quipped one Twitter user who set the ball rolling and opened up the ...

Kenya has long tried to find a new sound that defines it. Could Arbantone be the country’s new beat? The Kenyan music industry has seen a variety of genres come and go. There was Boomba, Kapuka, and ...

Former Gengetone singer Miracle Baby has predicted the failure of Gengetone music even as it tries to regain its lost glory this year. According to the singer, the music will not survive despite its ...

Kevin Mburu, known to fans as Shalkido, was a name once shouted across dance floors during the peak of Gengetone wave. To his peers, he was a symbol of youthful ambition. To many fans, his story now ...

This project will investigate the similarities and differences between strains of dancehall and sound system culture from Jamaica currently being cross-pollinated with electronic music from Germany, ...