/ ˈkwaɪtəʊ; NAmE -toʊ/ noun
[ U ] a type of popular South African dance music, often with words that are spoken rather than sung
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WORD ORIGIN
1990s: named after the Amakwaito , a group of 1950s gangsters in Sophiatown (a former quarter of Johannesburg, South Africa), from Afrikaans kwaai angry, vicious.