From July 19 to August 11, 2019, the Joburg Theatre will restage the internationally acclaimed musical Sarafina! on the Mandela Stage. Directed by Nhlanhla Ngema and starring Noxolo Dlamini as Sarafina, the musical, which was also made into a film starring Whoopi Goldberg in 1992, tells the story of the 1976 Soweto uprising from the perspective of the students who were involved in it. It also ran......
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The Young African Art Market (YAAM) live venue in Berlin, Germany, will host Nigerian Afrobeat saxophonist Orlando Julius Ekemode on May 22, 2019. Ekemode is credited as one of the first musicians to fuse funk, jazz and rhythm and blues with Nigerian highlife to create the powerful Afrobeat sound of the 1960s. He will be backed by UK psychedelic jazz band The Heliocentrics and perform most of......
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