Chinese Dancers Slay 'Zenzele' TikTok Dance Challenge at Africa Culture Exhibition in China

Chinese Dancers Slay 'Zenzele' TikTok Dance Challenge at Africa Culture Exhibition in China

  • A dance group from China went viral on TikTok after they took part in a South African dance challenge
  • The Chinese dancers did their best to dance along to Zenzele, a viral TikTok hit song in South Africa
  • Online users shared hilarious takes about seeing amapiano have its moment in China at the 2025 Africa Culture & Products Exhibition in China

A Chinese Dance group went viral on TikTok when they performed at an annual exhibition about Africa. The dancers in China pulled out their best moves to keep up with the amapiano dance challenge.

Chinese dancers do 'Zenzele dance challenge at Africa exhibition
Chinese dancers took part in the 'Zenzele dance challenge at the 2025 Africa Culture & Products exhibition in China. Image: @babyyg_wz
Source: TikTok

The video of the Chinese people dancing to amapiano received thousands of likes. People reviewed the amapiano dance moves the Chinese performers pulled off.

Chinese dancers do Zenzele dance challenge

In a video posted on TikTok by @babyg_wz, a group of Chinese dancers was performing at an African Culture exhibition event. In the clip, they did the entire viral amapiano routine to the song Zenzele by Uncle Waffles. Watch the video of the Chinese amapiano dancers below:

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Amapiano goes global

Briefly News reported that South Africans with delighted after seeing people in clubs overseas enjoying themselves to South African music. In the video, the DJ had the crowd going wild after he played an amapiano beat. South Africans were raving about how amapiano grew past South African borders.

In another story, amapiano looked like it was a hit in Korea. A video shows a Korean DJ who included an amapiano banger in his set. Mzansi netizens applauded the DJ's taste in music after he played Mnike by Tyler ICU. Mnike had the world dancing with Rihanna and other international celebrities, naming it as one of their favourite hits.

DJs playing amapiano overseas often go TikTok viral
DJs who play amapiano in clubs when overseas often go TikTok viral. Image: Smile
Source: Getty Images

South Africa rates Chinese Zenzele dance challenge

Many people thought the Chinese dancers did a good job trying to dance to amapiano. Other people made jokes about the dance video.

Kyle’s Crafts 🌸 said:

"The Bluetooth has connected successfully 😭"

Sun.tarrius wrote:

"So they know amapiano but get shocked seeing Africans? Ohh okay🙃"

The_Generel_of_the gaurdians commented:

"'Africa Culture and Products exhibition' but no Africans 😂"

miz_dede1 wrote:

"They are dancing with terms and conditions 😁"

Thelma_07_14 was amused:

"I’m sure the one with long hair is a professor and the rest are doctors. Phela they don’t play that side 🤣😂"

SaltedCaramel was pleased:

"It's the South Africans' hype in the background for me. We cheer on everybody🥰"

UppityNation🇿🇦 added:

"As a Nigerian, I agree that South Africa's music and dance are more vibey and nicer. These people are super creative!"

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Rutendo Masasi (Weekend Entertainment and Human Interest editor) Rue Masasi is a Human Interest and Entertainment writer at Briefly News who graduated with a BA (Hons) in English from Rhodes University in 2018. Rue also has 3 years of experience in journalism and over four years of experience as an online ESL teacher. She has also passed a set of trainings by Google News Initiative. You can reach her via email: rutendo.masasi@briefly.co.za