Why Kenya is Rapidly Becoming the Dancehall Capital of Africa

Dancehall heads will concur that over the last few years the people of Kenya has been steadily embracing dancehall music and culture. The sound from Jamaica is being promoted in Kenya at such a rapid rate that the country is now being called the Dancehall capital of Africa.

This title and the ever swelling number of faithful Dancehall fans in country has seen an influx of key dancehall icons jetting into the country for concerts. The growth of Dancehall in Kenya can be attributed to the numerous skilled Kenyan disc jocks that seem to all have a great respect for Jamaica’s music, its people and overall practices.

Additionally, Kenya has one of the longest running Reggae/Dancehall music video shows called Stepping Razor which was started by international Kenyan promoter, Kenya Don. Also, the country has one of the liveliest commercial radio stations (Homeboyz Radio on 103.5 FM) that centers a lot of its programming on Jamaican music.

Some of the deejays preaching the dancehall gospel include G-Money, Kriss Darlin, Juan, Izrael, Simple Simon, Heno, Selekta Otivo, DJ Partoh, DJ Prefixx among others. However, there’s a new crop of budding deejays who are pushing ‘the gospel’ in their own way. One of those is DJ Mura (a member of the Top Klass crew).

He has just released a hot mix that features all the biggest dancehall jams in Kenya. HERE it is.