Maftown Heights co-founder and executive producer Khuli Chana. (Photo: Supplied/ Sheila Afari PR)
A couple of years ago, rapper Khulane “Khuli Chana” Morule walked into a party he was invited to by a Ghanaian friend. At the time, Ghanaians were celebrating their Independence Day.
In that room, he was one of three South Africans, and it was at that moment that he decided to start one of the biggest movements in hip-hop culture: Maftown Heights.
The festival was going to become a home away from home for rappers from North West’s Mahikeng, a city that produced many musicians who were trying to find their footing in the city of Johannesburg with a sound and language that was not popular in the mainstream music industry at the time.
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