Benga music

Benga is a genre of Kenyanpopular music. It evolved between the late 1940s and late 1960s, in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi. In the 1940s, the in Nairobi aired a steady stream of soukous, South Africankwela, Congolesefinger-style guitar and various kinds of Cubandance music that heavily influenced the emergence of benga. There were also popular folk songs of Tanzania and Kenya's Luo peoples that formed the base of benga creation.