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Kidjo has a remarkable cultural vision that spans the globe but stays true to her roots.
The album Follow the Sun shows how South African jazz draws from diversity to speak fluidly across borders.
Makeba, who would have turned 90 on 4 March 2022, was a hugely influential artist and an icon of African liberation and identity.
Her celebration of black life, black beauty and black humanity through her films and music was subversive.
Schooled in music through church, he was driven by a fierce sense of belonging to Lesotho where he was born, and neighbouring South Africa.
The revered trombonist, composer and cultural activist never wished to be ‘the state composer’ but remained political until the end, in service of the people.
Like Pata-Pata, Homeless and Mbube, the song Jerusalema is elevated by a historical moment in time and has the power to cross over to different audiences.
The gift of his images lies in their depiction of the social worlds that apartheid sought to destroy, but that live on through the photographs.
Pan-African festival marked the emergence of a post-imperial world
The politics of Jonas Gwangwa’s music have stayed constant over the years, and are also apparent in the eight albums he has released in South Africa since returning from 30 years of exile.
Songstress Dorothy Masuku once told South Africa’s public broadcaster that music was like breathing for her.
South African jazz veteran Jonas Gwangwa has been getting recognition for the pivotal role he played in ‘singing down apartheid.’
Hugh Masekela’s itinerary-in-exile was loud and clear in his songs.
South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela made an impact across the world during his decades-long musical career.
The returned musical “King Kong” embodies the germinating seeds of two potential and mutually exclusive South Africas.
Two musicals set in working class mining communities – one in the UK and the other in South Africa – have diametrically opposed messages: one of hope; the other, despair.
Papa Wemba was one of the most active ambassadors of Congolese urban music on the global stage. He did this by fusing international musical styles with authentic Congolese grooves.
It took ages for one of African jazz’s hidden masterpieces to be reissued. Still today, four decades later, 1976’s ‘African Songbird’ tells volumes about the politics of the time.
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer, South African College of Music, University of Cape Town
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Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies, University of Strathclyde
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Associate Professor (Archaeology), University of South Africa
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Associate professor in Cultural Studies and English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Professor Emeritus, Social Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of American History, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Ethnomusicology, Kent State University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ethnomusicology, Stellenbosch University
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Ph.D. fellow in European Research Council (ERC) project "Apartheid- The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948-1990", led by Prof. Louise Bethlehem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer (Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork), NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of South Africa
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Artist in Residency, University of Pretoria
