In the final part of a three-part series on Afro house's newest evolution, Shiba Melissa Mazaza speaks to 17 artists from Africa and its diaspora about how 3-Step is inspiring innovation This article is the third in a three part-series about 3-Step and its unifying impact across borders in Africa. The first article analysed [...]
This article is the second in a three part-series about 3-Step and its unifying impact across borders in Africa. The first article analysed how 3-Step's emergence helped change the narrative of music on the continent against a backdrop of toxic nationalism — read it here Since 2024’s reckoning with Africanness — explored in Part One of [...]
Afro house’s newest evolution 3-Step originated in South Africa but is having a powerful and unifying impact across borders. In the first of a three-part series exploring the cultural shift 3-Step is spearheading, Shiba Melissa Mazaza analyses the climate of fear and toxic nationalism that was pervasive during its emergence, and speaks to the [...]
Explore the rise, story, and sound of 3Step — South Africa’s latest and delightfully danceable interpretation of House music. In the early hours of the morning in the fall of 2022 on the infamous Waterfloor of Watergate, a RISE party was in full swing, London’s Afro House Ambassadors Kitty Amor and Sef Kombo were wrapping up an electric [...]