South African singer-songwriter Tyla made history in February 2024 when she won the inaugural Grammy for Best African Music Performance. Her win was celebrated at home. But the 22-year-old sparked ...

Tyla, a rising South African singer with one of this year’s biggest hits, is known as coloured in her homeland, a term that is widely used to describe people of mixed heritage. In the United States, ...

Tyla is pushing back against industry expectations, staying rooted in her African musical influences. She explained how she is seen as coloured in South Africa but identified as Black in the U.S., ...

As popstar Tyla has shot to international fame, her identity as a coloured South African has sparked a debate over racial identity and self-identification in Black spaces. Tyla Laura Seethal, a ...

Tyla is, once again, clarifying and defending her racial identity to the public. On June 13, the South African singer appeared on New York City's Power 105.1 radio morning show The Breakfast Club, ...

Charlamagne tha God tried to revisit a past conversation about Tyla’s ethnicity in a recent interview on “The Breakfast Club,” but the artist’s handler quickly shut it down. “School me on these ...

Editor’s note: The spelling of the ethnic term “Coloured,” used within the context of South African history and culture, reflects the writer’s preference. October 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of ...

International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, Special Issue: Developing a Critical Praxis of Transformation in South African Higher Education (June 2022), pp. 9-21 (13 pages) ...