| Benga | |
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| Stylistic origins | Luo music, Kamba soukous |
| Cultural origins | Late 1940s - Late 1960s, Kenya |
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| Kenya • Tanzania | |
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Benga is a genre of Kenyan popular music. It evolved between the late 1940s and late 1960s, in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi. In the 1940s, the African Broadcasting Service in Nairobi aired a steady stream of soukous, South African kwela, Congolese finger-style guitar and various kinds of Cuban dance music that heavily influenced emergence of benga. There were also popular folk songs of Tanzania and Kenya's Luo peoples that formed the base on benga creation.