Sean Cole and Inside Out deliver a richly woven hour on South Africa's homegrown answer to hip-hop: Kwaito. Cole takes you thorough the streets, homes and clubs where this socially conscious music and its artists live and work.

You get a real sense of the music of Kwaito and its important place in South African youth culture. The voices are many, the accents sometimes thick, but the infectious beat of Kwaito, and its role as a real popular voice of young black South Africans is undeniably listenable.

Cole's occasional perspectives from "the dry young white american on the scene " POV in certain scenes are inevitable, but only a passing distraction. When he let's the artists speak for themselves, and delivers his well researched story framework, the program shines, and fortunately for the listener, it shines brightly.

Treat your ears to Inside Out's portriat of the Kwaito Generation of South Africa, and you'll be entertained as well as moved to realize that in a time where the music industry often determines what we listen to and who we ought to be enamored of, a homegrown sound can become a social force with which to be reckoned .

This hour would be great on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon.