Jazz beat takes root and blossoms in South Africa

Africa has entertaining cultural experiences it will put on display any day. On a scale of 10, jazz could be somewhere below two in most of Africa. But not in South Africa that has found a way of dancing to the genre, making it a juicy item on their cultural offering.

Every April since 2000 the country, currently led by President Jacob Zuma (a man with superb dancing skills), hosts the Cape Town International Jazz Festival; shebeens in the townships play regular doses of the genre as do other glowing festivals across the rainbow nation. It is a country always celebrating jazz culture, the South African way.