SESASEDI SA TSODIO / SA KOŠA KE LEROLE: a screening of two film-essays
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by Chimurenga
3w ago
We are delighted to present a screening of two film-essays by Rangoato Hlasane – Sesasedi Sa Tsodio and Sa Koša Ke Lerole. Sesasedi Sa Tsodio delves into the kwaito DNA and its multiple umbilical cords searches for and celebrates the musicality of leleme la MaAfrika – sonic and phonetic aesthetics of black world making. The character of Tsodio as lyrical fiction/mythology travels through orature and storytelling in black musical and sonic histories of the past, present and future. Traveling banners, thinking and sounding with three locations – Meadowlands, Mamelodi and Mahikeng – serve as ba ..read more
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MoRa: Mogorosi meets Rampolokeng with ensemble live recording
The Chimurenga Chronic
by Chimurenga
3w ago
Tumi Mogorosi meets Lesego Rampolokeng (MoRa) is not a word sound genesis but a word sound continuation upholding a sentiment of Black liberation. It is the meeting of different generations still musing on the fundamental freedom question, which is an absolute must within the current upheaval of world politics. The question that sounds out the centre of this meeting is a question of “writing the ungovernable” (Rampolokeng: 2015) ringing true of the O.R Tambo request to render the country ungovernable in 1985. How might these ethics of ungovernability apply in thinking of freedom anew, in thin ..read more
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EXHIBITORS AND PARTICIPANTS
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by Chimurenga
1M ago
Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival plays host to the following exhibitors and participants over 16-18 February 2024. See more on Ubuhle Bendalo here. Kids Arts Collective: free-form workshop for children by Ilze Wolff and Francesco Nassimbeni. Sibabalwe Ndlwana: Sibabalwe is a handloom textile-maker and founder of Ingyeyo Textile Studio. Her workshop will teach basic tapestry design. See more on Ingeyo here. The Ninevites: The Ninevites is a textile design and collaborative platform founded by Nkuli Mlangeni-Berg. The platform produces, amongst things, woven rugs with bold, geometric patte ..read more
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Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival
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by Chimurenga
1M ago
We are proud to announce the 2nd edition of Ubuhle Bendalo,“the beauty of creation/nature”,an annual community arts festival organised by multi-disciplinary artist Breeze Yoko in collaboration with pan-African arts platform Chimurenga from 16 – 18 February 2024.  Consisting of exhibitions, talks, workshops, performances and more, this year’s edition aims to bring our arts community together by providing a platform for engagement, collaboration and play. It features some of the country’s leading radical creators, including Mzwandile Buthelezi, Julie Nxadi, Loyiso Mkhize, The Ninevites, Bu ..read more
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Calabash Afrobeat Poems
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by Chimurenga
2M ago
by Dike Okoro Ikwunga Wonodi is not a new face among Afrobeat music followers in Nigeria and elsewhere; years back while a university student, he was a member of the “What?” collective which was an underground campus hit in Nigeria. As a young medical doctor, Ikwunga was a regular opening act for Femi Kuti at the Afrika Shrine in Lagos. Since the release of his latest album Calabash Afrobeat Poems Vol.1, Ikwunga has been the center of attention among the African community in the US and Britain. I recently spoke to Ikwunga via telephone and we both decided to set a date for this interview. Pri ..read more
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UBUHLE BENDALO
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by Chimurenga
2M ago
Chimurenga and Breeze Yoko are pleased to present UBUHLE BENDALO – exhibitions, performances, talks, books and more… 16 – 18 February 2024 Chimurenga Factory (157 Victoria Rd, Cape Town) SAVE THE DATE. The post UBUHLE BENDALO first appeared on Chimurenga ..read more
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WE ARE CLOSED TILL 8 JANUARY 2024
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by Chimurenga
3M ago
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A Phyllis Hyman Selection, 1976-1982
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by Chimurenga
3M ago
by Pierre Crépon Phyllis Hyman and crew with McCoy Tyner at the Berkeley Jazz Festival – Berkeley, CA, 1982. Photo © McCoy Tyner Archives “From what I could see, I was the only authentic jazz singer in the show,” Phyllis Hyman told Jet in 1981, discussing Sophisticated Ladies, a Broadway tribute to Duke Ellington. It was not the most obvious statement to be made by a singer who never recorded “pure” jazz projects. Hyman’s breakthrough had come with her vocals on Norman Connors’ 1976 cover of “Betcha by Golly, Wow,” and she contributed the following year to the album the drummer produced for hi ..read more
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A LIVE BROADCAST WITH DAMOLA OLOWADE
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by Chimurenga
4M ago
We’re delighted to host a listening with Lagos born, Pitori based rapper/producer Damola Owolade on PASS, Friday, 24 November from 7pm. Damola is one-half of the celebrated Pan Africanist prog-rap-folk duo Deep Dive Set, who harness the archaeological function of the hip-hop art form: excavating samples like fossils, fragments of forgotten history resurrected and immortalized by the very act of their discovery. The raw materials of Damola’s production come from sakara, apala, juju, fuji, highlife and other sounds in the deep-deep Yoruba arkive, which he chops and envelops in dubwise pieces. H ..read more
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The Forest and the Zoo
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by Chronic
4M ago
Johnny Dyani offers a method to the Skanga (black music family) in this extended conversation with Aryan Kaganof. Photographs by George Hallett. I was 19 years old when I left South Africa to avoid being conscripted into the apartheid army. My great passion was music and I had for a number of years been the head reviewer of the New Albums page of Scope magazine. It was only once outside of South Africa however, that I encountered for the first time the music of the jazz exiles, most notably, the Blue Notes. Blue Notes For Mongezi remains, for me, the most excoriating ..read more
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