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noun
A genre of urban East African music recorded in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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History
From Swahili zilizopendwa (“those that were loved (inanimate)”), probably because the genre arose in the post-independence era in East Africa and was loved by locals for its representation of freedom.
