Usage examples (10)

• They were in "police vehicles, some in private cars, some in … big vans called kwela-kwela's and some in smaller ones" driving up the main road.
• It is a great loss to music lovers, especially jazz followers, some of whom were almost addicted to his marabi and kwela music, and to cultural activists generally.
• Graceland, though echoes of its lilting South African kwela music are heard on
• It sounded like someone was throwing coins and dice on the table and, amid a lively conversation, out came the words "here comes kwela kwela".