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February 1, 2024 Eric Charry, _Wesleyan University_ African artists with major US industry support have the advantage - now more than ever. August 28, 2023 Gwen Ansell, _University of

Pretoria_ Not just a great jazz singer, Sylvia Mdunyelwa was also an activist, educator, broadcaster and actress. April 27, 2023 Gwen Ansell, _University of Pretoria_ The legendary As-Shams

jazz label has released the first of several compilation albums recovered from its archive. March 24, 2023 Nomfundo Xaluva, _University of Cape Town_ If you ever found yourself in the same

room with Gloria Bosman, you were in for a lesson of a lifetime. February 6, 2023 Sanya Osha, _University of Cape Town_ Kidjo has a remarkable cultural vision that spans the globe but stays

true to her roots. May 12, 2022 Gwen Ansell, _University of Pretoria_ The album Follow the Sun shows how South African jazz draws from diversity to speak fluidly across borders. March 2,

2022 Nomfundo Xaluva, _University of Cape Town_ Makeba, who would have turned 90 on 4 March 2022, was a hugely influential artist and an icon of African liberation and identity. December 15,

2021 Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang, _University of Pretoria_ Her celebration of black life, black beauty and black humanity through her films and music was subversive. July 20, 2021 David

Coplan, _University of the Witwatersrand_ Schooled in music through church, he was driven by a fierce sense of belonging to Lesotho where he was born, and neighbouring South Africa. January

23, 2021 Gwen Ansell, _University of Pretoria_ 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. October 29, 2020 Akhona Ndzuta, _University of Fort Hare_ 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. September 1, 2020 Kylie Thomas, _NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies_ 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. July 21, 2019 David Murphy, _University of Strathclyde _ Pan-African festival marked the emergence of a

post-imperial world June 18, 2019 Gwen Ansell, _University of Pretoria_ 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. February 25, 2019 Gwen Ansell, _University of Pretoria_ Songstress Dorothy Masuku once told South Africa’s public

broadcaster that music was like breathing for her. April 9, 2018 Gwen Ansell, _University of Pretoria_ South African jazz veteran Jonas Gwangwa has been getting recognition for the pivotal

role he played in ‘singing down apartheid.’ February 11, 2018 Ron Levi, _Hebrew University of Jerusalem_ and Louise Bethlehem, _Hebrew University of Jerusalem_ Hugh Masekela’s

itinerary-in-exile was loud and clear in his songs. January 23, 2018 Gwen Ansell, _University of Pretoria_ South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela made an impact across the world during his

decades-long musical career. September 28, 2017 Gavin Robert Walker, _Stellenbosch University_ The returned musical “King Kong” embodies the germinating seeds of two potential and mutually

exclusive South Africas. August 15, 2016 Alinah Kelo Segobye, _University of South Africa_ 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.