Chimurenga is proud to present BAFO & XABA – Madala Kunene and Sibusile Xaba LIVE in concert at Chimurenga Factory on Saturday 8 November 2025 for the launch of their long awaited debut album KwaNTU.
Sibusile Xaba has been mentored by Madala ‘Bafo Kunene’ for the past decade, and kwaNTU (co-released by Mushroom Hour Half Hour & New Soil) sees the teacher/student duo converging within the inimitable space of sound and spirit that they share through Kunene’s teaching.
The album was recorded in Zululand in the town of Utrecht, at a cultural centre called Kwantu Village, which gives its name to the album. ‘It’s such a broad word,’ Xaba says, ‘but the elders teach us that Ntu is basically an energy, almost chi, an energy, a force that all living beings have within them. It’s a living energy, so kwaNTU is like, almost the place of this energy.’ After five days of jamming, improvising and planning, the session was recorded in one take over a single night.
Saturday, 8 November 2025 from 7pm
c, Cape Town)
R250 via Quicket and R300 on the night
